DAY 294 Read Matthew 20; Mark 10:32-52; Luke 18:31 through 19:28.
Today's reading: Tremendous truths shine out from these pages, each one of great value to us. In His commendation of Zacchaeus, Jesus stated the purpose of His mission--the words of our memory gem.
Memory gem: "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Thought for today:
A picture program was being held in a little church in central England several years ago. All the children in the neighborhood were there on the front seats, listening to the speaker who was showing the Bible pictures. Someone came to the door and passed a note up to the minister, who stopped to read it and then said, "A report has just come to us that Mary Jones is lost. Her parents don't know where she is, and her father and the policemen are out hunting for her all over town." Well, no Mary Jones responded, and they went on with the service.
After it was over and they turned on the lights, there was Mary Jones on the front seat. A lady said, "Why, Mary, didn't you hear the announcement that you were lost and that your parents were looking for you? Why didn't you speak up?"
Mary answered, "I wasn't lost. I knew where I was all the time. I was right here in church."
You know, friend, there are many people today who don't know that they are lost. There are thousands of people lost right in church, sometimes on the front seat. Sometimes some of us preachers get lost--in the winding paths of modern speculation. We get lost in the philosophic subtleties of our supposed modern superiority. Some of us are just plain lost in sin.
We need to be found by somebody, somebody who is our seeking the lost for Jesus. Oh, my friend, you may not know that you are lost; but if you do come to the realization that you are lost from the fold of Christ, I pray that something in this book may help you back to the fold of the true Shepherd, the only place where you will find peace and confidence and hope and rest.
Today's reading: Tremendous truths shine out from these pages, each one of great value to us. In His commendation of Zacchaeus, Jesus stated the purpose of His mission--the words of our memory gem.
Memory gem: "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Thought for today:
A picture program was being held in a little church in central England several years ago. All the children in the neighborhood were there on the front seats, listening to the speaker who was showing the Bible pictures. Someone came to the door and passed a note up to the minister, who stopped to read it and then said, "A report has just come to us that Mary Jones is lost. Her parents don't know where she is, and her father and the policemen are out hunting for her all over town." Well, no Mary Jones responded, and they went on with the service.
After it was over and they turned on the lights, there was Mary Jones on the front seat. A lady said, "Why, Mary, didn't you hear the announcement that you were lost and that your parents were looking for you? Why didn't you speak up?"
Mary answered, "I wasn't lost. I knew where I was all the time. I was right here in church."
You know, friend, there are many people today who don't know that they are lost. There are thousands of people lost right in church, sometimes on the front seat. Sometimes some of us preachers get lost--in the winding paths of modern speculation. We get lost in the philosophic subtleties of our supposed modern superiority. Some of us are just plain lost in sin.
We need to be found by somebody, somebody who is our seeking the lost for Jesus. Oh, my friend, you may not know that you are lost; but if you do come to the realization that you are lost from the fold of Christ, I pray that something in this book may help you back to the fold of the true Shepherd, the only place where you will find peace and confidence and hope and rest.
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