December 18th, 2006
REMEMBER WHEN…
The good old days of yester-year. Those were the times. Yep. It’s taken a few days (its been a strange few days, to say the least) to regain memories (and I am sure that many more days ‘til I regain them all back – who knows really)… and I’m not really sure what I am going to write about here, if I am going to email this one out or let this just sit on the blog. I don’t know. I can’t explain how I felt Saturday, knowing I didn’t know anything, except for one single word: lost.
This is what I learned from this experience: lost is not knowing where you are and not knowing how to get where you want to be. When you are lost, you want to get somewhere but you don’t know how from the current position.
I kept telling people that I wanted to go home. They would ask me where home was… “I don’t know,” would be my response. I didn’t know where it was or how to get there.
Psalm 119:169-176
May my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word. May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise. May my lips overflow with praise, for you teach me your decrees. May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous. May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight. Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me. I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.
A wise friend of mine once said that irregardless of the situation, good – bad – indifferent – whatever the fortune, it should draw me closer to God. Now, I can’t say (just being honest) that I was drawing closer to God when I couldn’t remember who the President of the US. In fact, I don’t think I was really doing much of anything.
Jeremiah 50:6-7
“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place. Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’”
“Be Careful What You Think You Know.” That quote came in handy… although I didn’t remember it, I still applied it quite well to my situation. Have you ever been so scared that you want to run? And you’re not sure what the situation is, but it just doesn’t seem right? When I was in the hospital and they started poking needles into me, I thought about leaving. I wanted to go home and THEY WERE TORTURING ME! Maybe I am the only one who could see it from my perspective, but that’s how it was.
Ezekiel 34:1-6, 15-16
The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
Luke 19:10
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”
Luke 19:10 lost (Thayer):
apollumi
REMEMBER WHEN…
The good old days of yester-year. Those were the times. Yep. It’s taken a few days (its been a strange few days, to say the least) to regain memories (and I am sure that many more days ‘til I regain them all back – who knows really)… and I’m not really sure what I am going to write about here, if I am going to email this one out or let this just sit on the blog. I don’t know. I can’t explain how I felt Saturday, knowing I didn’t know anything, except for one single word: lost.
This is what I learned from this experience: lost is not knowing where you are and not knowing how to get where you want to be. When you are lost, you want to get somewhere but you don’t know how from the current position.
I kept telling people that I wanted to go home. They would ask me where home was… “I don’t know,” would be my response. I didn’t know where it was or how to get there.
Psalm 119:169-176
May my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word. May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise. May my lips overflow with praise, for you teach me your decrees. May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous. May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight. Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me. I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.
A wise friend of mine once said that irregardless of the situation, good – bad – indifferent – whatever the fortune, it should draw me closer to God. Now, I can’t say (just being honest) that I was drawing closer to God when I couldn’t remember who the President of the US. In fact, I don’t think I was really doing much of anything.
Jeremiah 50:6-7
“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place. Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’”
“Be Careful What You Think You Know.” That quote came in handy… although I didn’t remember it, I still applied it quite well to my situation. Have you ever been so scared that you want to run? And you’re not sure what the situation is, but it just doesn’t seem right? When I was in the hospital and they started poking needles into me, I thought about leaving. I wanted to go home and THEY WERE TORTURING ME! Maybe I am the only one who could see it from my perspective, but that’s how it was.
Ezekiel 34:1-6, 15-16
The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
Luke 19:10
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”
Luke 19:10 lost (Thayer):
apollumi
- To destroy; as in to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to ruin or to render useless or to kill or to declare that one must be put to death or to metaphorically to devote or give over to eternal misery in hell or to perish, to be lost, ruined, destroyed
Compare this lost to the Old Testament ones… such as:
Ezekiel 34:4 lost (Brown/Driver/Briggs)
'âbad
- Perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed.
- (Qal) - perish, die, be exterminated or perish, vanish (figuratively) or be lost, strayed
- (Piel) - to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up or to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (figuratively) or cause to stray, lose
- (Hiphil) - to destroy, put to death or of divine judgment or object name of kings (figuratively)
And all the other passages I used in the OT use 'âbad when referring to lost.
Revelation 12:7-9, 17
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring—those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
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