Friday, April 16, 2021

LOST???

Have you ever been lost?

 Do you remember as a child walking through the store with your parents and then you get distracted and stop to look at the toys or candy? You think your parent's are still with you as you stop and look, BUUUUUT then all of the sudden you look up and your parent's are GONE!!! You go into panick mode and started running around frantically looking for your parent's...THIS IS THE FEAR OF A CHILD THAT IS LOST!!!

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However, one July, back quite a few years ago, while we were in the Bahamas, my sister and I took one day to spend at the beach, we had an absolute grand time, which I will STILL be blogging about, BUUUUUT just we were packing everything up and getting ready to head back to the cruise ship, SOMETHING HAPPENED!!!
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My sis looked around as we were pickup our bags and says, Mary, WHERE IS MARY JO??? I was like, Ummmmm...Idk! We look around at first just figuring that she had walked a little ways down the beach, buuuut everywhere we walked, she was STILL NOT THERE!!! We looked and looked and looked!!! Buuuuuut we couldn't find her!!! We called out her name buuuuut STILL there was NO RESPONSE!!!
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My sister was like what if she is drowning? What if someone kiddnapped her? The beach was jam-paced with people and By now my sister had gone into total and complete FREAK-OUT-PANICK MODE!!! She was crying hysterically and just running around a total mess! (I was scared, BUUUUT not that scared! 1. MJ HATEd the ocean and REFUSEd to go near it without being held...so I knew she wasn't drowning in it!!! 2. She had WAAAAAAAY to much attitude to EVERRR go with a stranger without a HUUUUUUGE fight!) 
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So I happened to find a really nice Bahamian man, I told him what had happened and he said NOT to worry, we were going to find her! And he stopped right there in the middle of his beach job and started praying with me...
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Annnnnnd right as he was praying with us...there comes MJ, just strolling up without a care in the world! We were like, WHAT HAPPENED??? WHERE WERE YOU??? She is just like, I went to the bathroom up the hill! My sis is like, YOU NEVER TOLD ME!!! You CAN'T JUST LEAVE US LIKE THAT!
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 My sis WAS SOOOOO RELIEVED!!! She had her hand on her heart and she told me that she can't even begin to explain the PANICK she felt when she couldn't find MJ! She said that the horror and the fear she felt at the thought of losing her daughter, she said she just honestly couldn't even explain how she felt! She has NEVER in all her life felt that way!
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THAT GOT ME THINKING...
I wonder if that is the way God feels, when one of HIS children are lost! THINK ABOUT IT!!! How do you think God feels, when one of us have drifted away from him?! Do you realize JUST HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO GOD??? He loves each and everyone of us so much!
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"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?..."
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The heart of God is hurting for you!!! Yes he is God, and he knows EVERYTHING, buuuuut at the same time, Do you realize that God is searching for you? He is frantically, desperately looking to find you!!! Maybe you are like MJ and you don't even realize that you are lost? BUUUUT God, he knows right where you are at...HE IS CALLING YOUR NAME!!! 
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He is hoping you will listen...hoping you will hear him!!! Or maybe you are like that little kid in the store, you didn't mean to get lost...you just got distracted...you only stopped for a minute...buuuut somehow, you sight of your father, either way, JESUS IS LOOKING FOR YOU!!!
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"...And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost..."
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Do you know the relief you will bring to the heart of God when you are found??? It doesn't matter where you have been or what you have done, He JUST WANTS HIS CHILD BACK!!! You don't have to stay lost...
LET JESUS FIND YOU!!!
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  "...I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. (Luke 15:4-7)


♥Mary Frances :)