Protectors of the Treasure

Luke 15:8

Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it?

Where will the woman look for her lost coin?  This passage infers that she will look everywhere.  How long will she look?  She will look carefully and extensively until she finds her coin.  How will she look?  The passage does not specifically reveal how she will look, but it is likely that she would follow the same process that we follow upon losing something.  She will go back to the place where she thinks that she lost the coin.  If the coin is not there, she will go back to all the other familiar places that she can think of until she finds the coin. 

Aren't we all just as diligent as this woman whenever we lose something that is of value to us?  Do we not employ an exhaustive effort to find anything lost that we consider a personal treasure?  Of course, we do.

So why do we delay even a second when we recognize that we have lost even a fraction of our zeal for Christ?  We should go back immediately to the place where we lost it.  Did we lose it because we cut back on our prayer time?  We need to return to our most robust prayer habits.  Did we lose it because we stopped studying the Word of God?  We should return to our diligent studies.  Did we lose it because of our habitual sin?  We need to repent and surrender to Christ.

Jesus Christ is our greatest treasure.  When the world works overtime to distract us from Our Treasure and our awareness of the presence of Our Treasure dims one iota, let us run quickly to return to the fullness of His Light.  If we practice to stay in the fullness of His light, we guard against losing even a portion of Our Treasure.

Let us be fierce protectors of the treasures that we have been given in Jesus Christ.  Let us fight mightily against any distraction that comes to diminish the value of the fullness of Our Savior in our lives.  Let us seek the Holy Spirit to heighten our awareness of our ever present Treasure and quicken our resolve in keeping Our Treasure above all things in our lives.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for giving us the most awesome treasure known to mankind, Your Son, Jesus Christ.  In our weakness, Father, we find that we have drifted away from our zeal for Your Son.  We pray that You will help us return to the place where we lost Him.  We ask that You show us how to invigorate the good discipline in our lives that we once had.  We beseech You to give us the strength we need to walk away from the torments of our flesh.  Lord, bring us back to the fullness of the Light of Our World, Your Son Jesus.  We ask all these things in the precious, precious name of Jesus Christ.