Lost is Found

“All that’s been lost and the dreams that have died

The hurt and the shame that you buried inside

It can all be redeemed every tear that you cried

What never was now is more with our hope that is Christ”

Loren Thornburg

We have all lost something at some point. Thankfully we have lost and founds. A lost and found is a place where we can retrieve items we lost that have been found by other people. Unfortunately not everyone returns what has been lost. Sometimes that which we lose is stolen. Other times if we wait too long to go to the lost and found our item will be thrown away. I often wish there was a lost and found for things in our lives...dreams that have been lost to defeat, childhoods that have been lost to hardships, hope that has been lost to heartache. More than I wish to find the CD that I lost or the bike that was stolen I wish for the dreams and the hope that’s been lost along the way. Thankfully that is possible with Jesus Christ. So now we can hear Jesus sing to us the words written by Tyrone Wells, “and if you just try with me maybe in time you’ll see I want to be everything you lost along the way; the song that you used to sing and your favorite dream, I want to be everything you lost along the way.”

“Fear not; you will no longer live in shame. The shame of your youth and the sorrows of widowhood will be remembered no more, for your Creator will be your husband. The Lord Almighty is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth. For the Lord has called you back from your grief--”

Isaiah 54:4-6 NLT

Isaiah gives us such a great picture of the way God wants to redeem all the dreams and hope that has been lost in our lives. The woman who lived in much shame in her youth and much sorrow in her widowhood will no longer find that to be her reality. Instead of her dreams being lost now her grief will be lost. The Lord will be all that she lost along the way. He will be her husband, He will take her shame and instead of shame show her love and compassion. And He longs to have compassion on you too! He is calling you back from your grief, your pain, your shame and calling you into Himself that you might find restoration for all that’s been destroyed. It takes time; it takes grace; it takes trust, but the Lord is faithful and more than able to redeem all that’s been lost along your way.