Something Missing

On more than one occasion Luke’s Gospel talks about finding something or someone that is lost.
The ‘prodigal’ son is one of the best known examples of one that was lost and ‘now is found’.

Chapter 10 of Luke’s Gospel from verse 30 to verse 37 contains the story of a man who was set upon by thieves and left in a half dead condition but was later attended to by a Samaritan who restored all that he had lost.

The same Gospel also tells of a thief who is dying on a cross yet knows enough to call upon the Blessed One on the cross next to Him. Surely he recognizes his soul’s Saviour as the Son of God.
He calls Him Lord.
“Lord, remember me when Thou comest in Thy kingdom.” Luke 23 verse 42.

Although he is a thief being punished by death for his crimes he is not concerned with the harshness of his penalty or social justice, but he is more concerned that he is soon to meet his maker and he does not wish to miss out on being among the elect of God. He is physically close to the Saviour and also spiritually close.
He was rewarded sooner than he expected.

He heard the Saviour’s words “Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.”

The casual observer may think someone dying for his transgressions to be condemned for ever yet his soul was redeemed from destruction because he believed on the Son of God.

The Gospel begins with Zacharias and Elisabeth and chapter one verse 7 says “they had no child”. They had prayed and God answered with the miraculous appearing of an angel to restore Divine communication that had been lost for 400 years.
Like Abraham's wife Sarah she was barren till old age, yet Elisabeth would give birth to one who would announce the coming of Messiah. “And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways...”

However fulfilled you may feel dear reader your life must be incomplete without the knowledge of Christ as Saviour.
Believe in Him and you will be saved for eternity.

Luke’s Gospel also tells through the words of the Saviour of one who had neglected the Word of God and was in a place of torment. “There is a great gulf fixed.” What he had failed to do during time was now fixed for eternity.
A man lost through neglect.

A man's name whom Scripture withholds, lost, when he appeared to be "found" on earth.
Yet a beggar who appeared to be lost on earth was in the bosom of Abraham in Paradise.

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