The Bible is full of lost people – The Israelites enslaved in Egypt and then seeking the Promised Land – the Prodigal Son who lost his way from the safety of his loving family. At one time or other we are all lost until we find rescue in Jesus. Life often leads us astray and at other times we are lost by our own wrong actions.
When the Israelites fled Egypt, I’m told they had a journey of a few weeks days How did a journey of a few weeks become forty years? The answer is disobedience What a sombre thought that our wanderings might take forty years in wasted wilderness living! There is a Chinese saying ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.’ What if this one step is in the wrong direction?
‘Prone to wonder, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love,’ from Robert Robertson’s ‘Come Thou font of every blessing.’ . I’m reminded of a chorus by E.H. Swinstead ‘ There’s a way back to God, from the dark road of sin. There’s a door that is open and you may go in. At Calvery’s cross is where you begin, when you come as a sinner to Jesus/’
It’s never too late to be found by God again; He is always waiting and welcoming.