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Saturday... Have you ever been lost and then saved?


Saturday... Have you ever been lost and then you were saved?

I was lost as a child in a big department store and then my parents found me. As I look back on it as an adult it is no big deal but to me as a child it was. I'm not sure that I cried but I was a sensitive child. I probably did and it seemed to work. My parents found me.

The writer of Psalm 107:13 (NIV) says, "Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress." Maybe being in trouble or great distress has a way of getting us to the point that that we cry out and in turn we are saved. 

Now what if we don't know we are lost. What if I was out playing in the store and liking the fact that my parents weren't around but at some point it would be important for me to see that I was lost. The store was not my home. Home was where my parents were. Being lost was not going to be a good thing. 

Now many of us don't realize we are lost. We are having a good time and we don't want to be saved. And that is where trouble and distress can wake us up. Somehow we get to the point that we realize that we can't live this life on our own. There is something wrong with us. That we are lost and we need help. 

Romans 3:23-24 (MSG) says, "Since we've compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proven that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ."

The NLT says verses 22-24 this way,  "We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins."

"We are made right with God" in other words saved, "by placing our faith in Jesus Christ."

Psalm 107:13 & 14 (NLT) says, "'Lord, help! They cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains." And that is what he wants to do for us today. He wants to save us. 

We need to realize that we are lost and then cry out to him who wants to save us. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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