"Search for
Me and live! ... Search for Me and live!" (Amos 5:4,6). Life can be
tuned around. This isn't something that we can do for ourselves. It must
done for us by the Lord. "Search for good instead of evil so that you
may live" (Amos 5:14). The Lord gives us a new direction in life. When
we read of the call to conversion, we must remember that we cannot
answer this call in our own strength. The strength that we need must be
given to us by the Lord.
"The Son of Man came to save the lost" (Matthew 18:11). In Matthew 18:12-13, Jesus speaks about sheep. He's really speaking about us. He is the Shepherd. We are His sheep. Sheep wander away from the shepherd. We wander away from the Lord. The shepherd looks for the lost sheep. Jesus has come to seek for us and find us. He brings us home to God, our Father. Through His saving grace, we receive new life - a life in which we rejoice in our great Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. He delivers us from the condemnation, which our sin has brought upon us. He brings us into the knowledge of His forgiveness. This Gospel of salvation changes us. It teaches us to live in the power of God's love. Jesus speaks about "the Kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:12,23), "the Kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:14,24) and "eternal life" (Matthew 19:29). Jesus' way of thinking and living is so very different from the world's way of thinking and living. He chall...
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