Lost

FOREWORD...
"This was written on (21/9/2006 21:16hrs) after I came back from a camp having the theme "LOST". It was a camp that change my life, a experience that meant forever, a calling that is higher than any other. For now I am He's to use and dispose. My life I regard as nothing compare to the glory of God.

saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” Revelation 7: 12

~ A fully Edited on 22/11/2007~

"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." Luke 19: 10

Many of us here are pretty much lost. Yes we... We are so blinding lost that we do not even knew it! Then you would be asking "But how can that be? I have big plans, I have big goals, I know where to go after my education and I know what level of comfort zone in life I would be living in... How could I possibly be lost?

Then here is the catch, ask yourself just one question... Why are you here for?
(The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.) Ecclesiastes 12: 13 (ESV)

What is the meaning of 'fear God'? for in 2 Timothy 1:7
(for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.)
Do you fear Your parents? What kind chemistry is in this fear? A respectful fear I would suggested. Then what about the creator of heavens and earth? A perfectly just and loving Father? A reverential awe would solve the question.
Next then how are we able to keep his commandments unless we first read his words? By doing QT and obey by acting it out.

You see... we are all here for a reason, and that is to serve a mighty and loving god...
(“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,) Deuteronomy 10: 12

God want us to serve Him with all our heart and with all our soul.

I believe one common dreams we have is to earn lots of money and spent as much as we want. But by doing so, you already place your desire into the heart of this world.
(You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. )
James 4: 4

The world we are living in is sinful and dark,
"Our world is scarred by injustice, by increasing disparity in wealth, by fabulous affluence for the few, and increasing poverty for the majority, by rising social violence and the disintegration of communities and societies because of this injustice, insecurity and fear. This is the bondage of SIN." written in memoir of Archbishop Oscar Romero murdered by an assassin's bullet on March 24, 1980.

As Christian we fall into the devil's trap easily because we are so into this world that some times we can no longer hear the voice of God in our life and so we do things without first seeking God. Little traps like keep ourselves too busy to have 5 minutes in our 24hrs a day to even speak to God and to read His words. In return we place our desire on the things of this world without realizing and thurs, we are lost without even knowing it.

But the Lord want us no longer be lost into this world.
(“I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God.
“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.") Ezekiel 34: 15 - 16

That God, himself would seek us and bring us back.

(“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”) Luke 19: 10

That God, would sent his Son down to seek and save us.

(“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
“And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
“And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’) Luke 15: 4 - 6

That God, would rejoice when he has found any of us that was lost...
This is the heart of our Father...

Peter tells us:
(His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.) 2 Peter 1: 3 - 9

(I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.) Romans 12: 1 - 2

I ask and I pray that we no longer allow ourselve to be lost in the things of this world. But place
But let our only desire is that
(That will I seek:That I may dwell in the house of the LORDAll the days of my life,To behold the beauty of the LORD,And to inquire in His temple.) Psalm 27: 4

For His mercies endures forever...
AMEN