We are in a series called Disconnected, looking at what happens in our lives when we become disconnected from God, and how to connect or reconnect with God in our lives. When we live life apart from God we begin to slowly lose our life and our vitality; it’s when we disconnect from the life God offers us in Jesus that life begins to not hold together anymore. The Bible talks about those who are not connected to God in relationship as lost. Lost in our sin, lost in ourselves, lost in this world. When the Bible speaks about the lost, it’s an endearing term. A picture of a shepherd distressed because he can’t find his sheep; a woman distressed because she can’t find something valuable to her. If you lose something you don’t care about, you stop looking for it immediately. You are called “lost” only because you are valuable to God. Your friends, neighbors, coworkers, family, who don’t know God are called lost because they are incredibly valuable to God. Our Father in heaven knows us even when we don’t yet know Him, and He is distressed when we are lost and rejoices when we are found.
