Luke 15:4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
This word ‘complete’ comes to mind as it is the theme underlying the text from Luke 15 we read today. A shepherd leaves 99 to find one so he has a hundred, and a widow turns her room inside out to find one silver coin so she has 10. Each of them sought for completeness.
With God, it’s as if He is crazy about us coming into fellowship with Him. Such is His interest that He will run to us even when we as much as reach out to Him. The same is true about us as men also. There is something about completeness and the pursuit of things because there remains a place in man, a void that has been so made that nothing seems capable of satisfying or filling, except God.
It is a place meant for God. Hence, a person can spend years chasing after many other things and thus seem to possess everything, but yet still feel incomplete. Saint Augustine of Hippo tells us why:
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you.”
Until we give God His place in our lives, we remain some distance from completeness.
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