For the past two weeks I have sent out a worship devotional for our music and arts team that correspond with our songs for the week. It is designed to help us understand what we are singing about and how the songs tie in with scripture. Last week it made a big impact on me and some of the others in the team when it came to singing the songs during the service. As we sang and played our instruments, scripture was bouncing in my head and when it came to the tag line I used to tie the song to scripture it had a whole new meaning.
This week we are in Luke 15 talking about finding lost stuff, sheep, coins and people. All the stories are designed to teach us how Christ is searching for His lost sheep, His lost children. The thing that struck me this week while preparing the devotional, is the celebration that happens in Heaven when a sinner repents and comes home.
Luke 15:7 says this; "I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”
If this is what pleases God's heart, if this is what shakes the mountains and rattles the rafters, then this is what we are to be about. As we choose to follow Christ and become more like him, we also must be passionate about what He is passionate about, and that is finding his lost sheep, those who don't know him yet.
This week let us learn to be passionate about the lost, let us desire to seek after them, as Christ desires them to be found. He has called on us to help him in this search, to join in the celebration when they are found and to go out and search for more. Be Christ’s hands and feet this week, in your relationships at work and at home. Make sure you are looking, watching, searching for those opportunities. Let’s help cause the mountains to tremble and the rafters to rattle as heaven rejoices over the found children of God.
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