I Will Seek That Which Was Lost

Anyone else ever accidentally throw your child’s big homework packet away cause you’re bombarded with school papers on the daily & sometimes it’s HARD TO TELL what should be kept or not? And then your child asks about it & you have to tell them you mistakenly CHUCKED IT IN THE TRASH? And your child panics & tells you he worked hard on that packet & it’s DUE TOMORROW? So you fish through two garbage bags until you come out TRIUMPHANT with the aforementioned homework packet? And then you see it’s got leftover dinner on a few pages so you gently take it apart, wash it off, & lay it out to dry? And then your child takes that crusty, wrinkled, & worn homework to school & turns it in?

Or is that just me? 🤪

But you know what? 

His homework, though thrown out, dirty, worn, crinkled… slightly smelling of lasagna… (could be worse ya know)

Got 100%.

It was still worth 100%.

It still counted.

The condition didn’t matter. The content did. The appearance didn’t matter. The effort did.

So when we feel like we’ve been forgotten, thrown away, spilled on,

Lost in the shuffle…

All is not lost.

Someone knows our absolute worth.

And He searches for us,

finds us,

washes us,

dries us,

& gently puts us back together.

Cause that’s what He does.

He paid the price.

💯percent

Old lasagna smell not included.

“I will seek that which was lost, & bring again that which was driven away, & will bind up that which was broken, & will strengthen that which was sick…

Therefore will I save my flock…

Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them” (Ezekiel 34:16, 22, 30)