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The Search for the Lost Coin

by Jerry Ousley  
2/16/2018 / Christian Living

            Several years ago when Deb was working second shift I was preparing for bed one evening when the telephone rang.  It was Debbie and she sounded a bit frantic.  “Jerry, would you look on the dining room table and see if I left my wedding band on it?”  Of course I did.  Now it was nearing the holidays and she had decorated for Thanksgiving.  Part of the décor was a tablecloth with a Thanksgiving theme.  It was a beautiful covering.  I looked it over and began to get a bit frantic myself.  That ring was nowhere to be found on the dining room table.  Perspiration began to stream down my forehead as I anticipated telling her that I couldn’t find it.  “I’m sorry honey, but it is just not there.”

            I knew that she was going to be worried all night long and so I worried about her.  But I had to work the next day myself so I went on to bed.  The next morning when I got up and stumbled into the dining room to fix my coffee for the morning, even with my hazy, morning eyes, immediately there on the table I spotted her wedding band.  It had been there all along.  What had happened was in the evening light the ring had blended in with the table cloth and I couldn’t make it out in the pattern.  However the difference in the light the next morning it was easily spotted.  I felt like an idiot when I called her to let her know what had happened.  But at least her ring was there and I didn’t have to buy another one!  Finding something that has been lost even when it was as simply lost as Deb’s wedding band, brings us great relief. 

We all have a lost coin.  When we realize the importance of our lost coin we cannot rest until it is found.  The woman in the parable told by Jesus in Luke 15:8-10 lit a lamp so as to see in every nook and cranny, very possibly moved all her belongings out in the yard and thoroughly swept the house until she found her coin.

            The “lost coin” for each of us is found in our search for a savior.  We all need one.  Some may accuse us of needing a crutch.  But most people need a crutch of some kind in life.  Some use alcohol, some use drugs, and others use something else.  Our crutch could be most anything.  So I am proud that I need Jesus as my crutch.  I know He won’t let me down the next morning with a hangover.  I won’t be hooked on something that is going to destroy my life little by little.  No, finding Jesus can give us a peace like we have never felt.  That’s why He is so important to search for.  The great thing about God is that in reality He is also searching for us.  Our soul has been lost from Him in sin.  He wants it back.  But when He finds us and we give our soul back to Him we also have made a great discovery.  We find the “lost coin” that we have been looking for all our lives.

            Some might ask about those who die without finding Jesus.  What if they have never heard the Good News?  What if they live in a country where the Gospel is not preached?  Are they still responsible for coming to God?  Paul addressed that question in the first chapter of Romans.  In so many words he told us that there are enough signs in nature to cause men to recognize a Creator and that there are no excuses good enough to deny God’s existence (see Romans 1:20).  That being said there is no excuse for not finding God.  There is no excuse good enough for giving up.  If we want to find our savior then we must search until we find Him.  If we exhaust ourselves in search of the “lost coin” we will find it.  We reach out to God through Jesus Christ and we are given the blessed hope of eternal life in Him, through Him and by Him.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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