The lost nature of a human soul.
It seems that even talking about this in Christian circles makes you some negative person to be cast out from all the positive people.
Being lost is a thing just like not wanting to be found is a thing. I love the line from the book, “We are not lost because we are going to wind up in the wrong place, we’re going to wind up in the wrong place because we are lost.”
Lost souls end up separated from God eternally. It’s no small accident, it usually comes from a constant effort to avoid and escape God. Hell is not a tragedy because it exists, hell is a tragedy because no one has to go there.
After a lifelong journey of telling God, “Hey I’m gonna do things my way, you have no claim on my life and I’m making my decisions based on me and not you, it’s hard to imagine that we can’t imagine the result of such a statement people make to God.
What you earn from a lifetime of separating yourself from God, is an eternity of life separated from God. A lifetime of situating yourself away-from-God , be assured He will excuse you from His presence.
There are lost souls, Jesus said it’s a broad road and many will find it. And that there is a narrow road and very few find it.
I’m afraid for so many American Christians who hold almost no theological understanding about sin, repentance, the need for forgiveness and for Christ to indeed be the Lord of my life who gets to have His way in me.
I pray for souls who have never surrendered their life to the Lordship of Christ. It looks a little like the following prayer…
Forgive me Lord for the ways I have done wrong to you and done wrong to others. I know that justice demands payment for wrongdoing. I deserve to pay it all back but I can’t afford it. Thank you for dying on the cross and making the broken parts of my life be whole again. Thank you that your payment on the cross can be my payment. Thanks for adopting me as a child into your family. Thank you for putting your Holy Spirit in me. Give me the strength, courage and perseverance to walk in your ways with the strength you provide. Thanks you for starting this work in me and the promise that you will bring it to completion. Amen!!
Being lost is a thing, being found is a thing. I pray you are found and forgiven and the stance of “the lost” and the stance of “found, forgiven and adopted” would be for you, as night and day as they truly are.
Truth, Grace, and Time 