A LOST AND HURTING WORLD

A LOST AND HURTING WORLD


We live in a LOST
And in a hurting world


WHERE almost everyone is
Lost to something
Putting something or someone
ABOVE God and Jesus


FORTUNATELY for us
We DO have God-
And Particularly Jesus
And fortunately
The world had God and Jesus
2,000 years ago too


He-THEY make all the difference
For us-in this world


“At the sight
Of the crowds-


His heart was moved
With pity for them


Because they were troubled
And abandoned
LIKE sheep without a shepherd” Matthew 9:36


And isn't that the way we FEEL
Sometimes today-too
LOST AND ABANDONED


Lost and abandoned in this
Cold-cruel world


But Jesus looks at us
With pity too-and-HELPS US
From lost-hurt-and abandoned
To HEALED EMOTIONALLY


Just the way he helped healed
ALL those physically-all those years ago


“Lord-my God
I called to you
For HELP
And you HEALED me” Psalm 30:2


“He himself
Bore our sins


In his body
On the cross


So that we might
Die to sins
And LIVE for righteousness


By his wounds
You have been HEALED


For you were like sheep
Going astray


But now you have
RETURNED to the SHEPHERD
And OVERSEER of your souls” 1 Peter 2:24-25


Jesus came to SAVE the lost
You and me
NOT those that already
Had found God


Luke 15-is ONE of my FAVORITE readings-
About one lost sheep-one lost coin
And one lost son
IN SEARCH of his LOVING Father


That is who Jesus came for-
For ALL of us
For we are all lost-
To a certain degree


“REJOICE with me-
I have found my lost sheep” Luke 15:6


“Rejoice with me
I have found my lost coin” Luke 15:9


“'For this son of mine was dead
And is ALIVE again


He was lost and is found'
So they began to CELEBRATE” Luke 15:24


The bible story
THIS bible lesson
IS our story


God LOOKS upon us
Jesus looks upon us
As He did the world
2,000 years ago


And he wants to move us
From lost into found


He looks upon us in pity


And he moves us
From lost and hurting
To HEALED


What a KIND-GENTLE-LOVING-
And forgiving SHEPHERD
That we do have


Robert P. Wallman
7-4-16




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Father James McKARNS






8-15-2019