Lost? It May Be Time To Go Home!

Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is calling.
Calling for you and for me…
See on the portals He’s waiting and watching,
Watching for you and for me.

Come Home, you who are weary…come home.
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling, ‘O sinner, come home.’

If you read the last post you might think this is a follow up…it is, sort of, but I really just wanted you to think about Heaven as your Home.  If that wasn’t clear enough earlier, please let me reiterate the idea that you have a Father who desires your company.  Better put, God wants each of us to return home!  All of us have been separated from His side at one time or another.  (Romans 3:23) While there are many striving to live a life that is close to His heart, unfortunately there are far too many who don’t even realize they’re lost.

Why is that so many fail to see the comforts of being in the presence of God?  The world (Satan) has deceived many of your friends and family into believing they are on our own and that’s OK.  Without any hope or comfort (except in themselves) and the only thing to do is ‘take care of #1.’  That is sad condition and I shutter when I think how many have bought into this lie.  It might be your son, or you father.  Maybe your brother has turned away from what he knew was right on to follow a deceptive, dead end.  When was the last time you called them to see if they would ‘come home?’  Have you called them lately and ask if they think of home?  Many times we don’t because we don’t want rejection.  Ignore the obvious and continue with business as usual.

But I wonder if sometimes we don’t make that call, because they might actually want to come home.  And quite honestly, we don’t know how to receive them back.  Jesus would (He does) not only receive the lost ones, He’s actually seeking them.  (Oh yes, the prodigal son’s father ran to meet him because he saw him  when, “…he was still a long way off…”, Luke 15:20.)  If only we had the same desire as the Father, to not only be looking for those who want to return, but to seek those who are lost (the coin and the lamb wasn’t looking to go home, they were just flat out lost.  (Luke 15:4-10)

There are many who are lost and don’t even know it.  Some of them might be sitting next to you on Sunday morning.  Could that be true?  Would a ‘Sunday morning church goer’ still be lost and not know it?  Just like the lonely sinner who sits on the other side of the world waiting for someone to ‘bring him home’.  Let’s be more diligent about talking to each other about going home…