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 and 3-16-2022