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Anthonys Corner - Sept 13th |
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Written by Anthony Melakian
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Friday, 11 September 2009 15:41 |
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While driving around Houston (Texans generally do a lot of driving) last month, I noticed an electronic sign that kept being displayed on all of the city’s freeways. The sign advertised the fact that an elderly person was missing from a neighboring town. The sign gave the license plate number of the car in which he/she might be riding and advised anyone who might know the whereabouts of the missing person to call the police department in that town. Why in a metropolitan area of 5.7 million people, was there a search advertised to the general public for just one person? And not only that, but for a person who had already lived the great majority of his/her life and at best, probably did not have much time left on this earth, especially in terms of “productivity”. So why a metro-wide search? Because we value LIFE, that’s why. When it comes to parables such as the ones we read in Luke 15 about the lost sheep, coin, and son, we generally “get it” (especially if the lost items belong to or are related to us). Yet Jesus still challenges us to “get it” on an even bigger scale. That scale is of course, calibrated to matters of eternal significance. When the Jewish leaders took issue with Jesus’ association with some of those they viewed as “low-lifes”, the Lord answered with parables designed to illustrate the value of just one who has transitioned from a state of eternal death to eternal life; from being lost, to being found. The value of even one life made in the image of God is more than we can imagine. When that life is examined through the lens of eternity, the value goes up to an even higher level. The continued consciousness of such is among those things that continue to motivate us to get the gospel out to as many people as we possibly can before the Lord returns.
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