Have you ever lost something valuable? Something irreplaceable? And search as you will, you cannot find it?
Well, that has happened to me; I lost my wedding ring and search as much as I can, I cannot find it.
You see, I pulled my work gloves off and pitched them aside. A few minutes later, I noticed that my wedding band was missing. Apparently it slipped off my finger when I jerked my gloves off. Of course, I immediately started looking, searching and combing through grass and gravel, places when I thought it could have dropped. I searched and looked for hours. Others joined the search, but all to no avail. Next move, bring in a metal detector.
It came to mind while searching that even as valuable as that ring is, there is something in my possession that is more valuable and that is, my eternal soul (“For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26).
There was a time when I was lost. But Jesus in His compassion sought for me and by His loving grace He found me and saved me and by His power He will keep me, never to lose me again.
My desperate hope is that I will find my ring. And if I do, I will treasure it and hope never to lose it again. But, there is no guarantee, that once found, it will never be lost again.
But not so with my eternal soul. For once found by the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, I shall never be lost again. I have the guarantee and promise of His word and the keeping power of my strong omnipotent Father–“And I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand” John 10:28-29.