Just as Jesus said this to His disciples, it is relevant to us today. If your child was lost in a store or a mall, it wouldn’t matter how long it took, you would drop what you were doing and look for that child until you found them! Most of us would discipline that child when we did find them but the point is we would search diligently until they were found.
That is what God does with us. When we are His and we have truly given our hearts to Him, when we go astray He will seek us to bring us back. The desire of your heart will be to get back to Him because we know Him and He knows us. If you only think you know Him, this won’t work. You can step away from Him and after a little while you won’t even feel the need to go back to Him because He wasn’t in your heart to begin with.
Unfortunately, there are many people today who fall into that last group. They might be a member of a church or they’ve been raised in church for most of their lives. They know scripture and have been in Sunday school many times. They have plenty of “head knowledge” of Jesus. They know about Him but they don’t know Him. This is where the revival in the church needs to begin today…in the church!
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