I just hate it when the remote control for the TV is lost.\u00a0 I start yanking out sofa cushions, sliding furniture around and accusing family members of negligence.\u00a0 This scene played out this past Sunday night with an unexpected outcome.<\/p>\n
One thing I have learned when going on a remote control search: Even if you have searched through the sofa and you are sure it’s not there, look again.\u00a0 It’s probably in the sofa.\u00a0 We lost the remote control for the VCR one time.\u00a0 It was missing for a year.\u00a0 We looked through the sofa multiple times during that year. Then, a year later, while moving the sofa, we found the remote.\u00a0 In the sofa.<\/p>\n
Such was the case this Sunday night.\u00a0 As I fumed about the missing remote, Sam came down to help look.\u00a0 He started looking in the sofa.\u00a0 “I’ve already looked there,” I said with frustration.\u00a0 Knowing “the one truth about missing remotes,” he just kept looking in the sofa anyway.\u00a0 And sure enough, we finally found the remote . . . in the sofa. \u00a0But not before finding a car key, a Fisher Space Pen, and a cell phone with eight missed\u00a0calls on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I never promised that everything I write about will have some spiritual meaning.\u00a0 Perhaps this little incident was just what it was:\u00a0A search for the remote control.\u00a0 But I was reminded of it this morning while reading about the Prodigal Son.\u00a0 He was lost, then found.\u00a0 Perhaps in some small way, the world is like a giant sofa.\u00a0 We are at times like the lost remote.\u00a0 And Jesus, like Sam, just keeps on looking in the sofa until He finds us.<\/p>\n
Luke 15:24 ‘for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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