“The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Lk 19:10). “It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found” (Lk 15:32). As soul-winner Charles H. Spurgeon passionately wrote about the lost: “People are lost willfully and willingly; lost perversely and utterly; but still lost of their own accord, which is the worst kind of being lost. They are lost to God, who has lost their heart’s love, confidence, and obedience; lost to the church, which they cannot rightly serve; lost to truth, which they will not see; lost to right, whose cause they do not uphold; lost to heaven, into whose sacred precincts they can never come; lost, so lost that unless almighty mercy shall intervene, they shall be cast into the pit that is bottomless, to sink forever. Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!”
Today’s Reading: Isaiah 34-36