LOST AND FOUND

Luke 19: 1 – 10


9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

Every store, factory, subway and bus company, airline, school, or whatever organization, has a lost and found dept. Things that we once owned and have been lost to us lay idle collecting rust and deteriorating waiting for the day that we return to liberate our stuff that we feel has value.
Okay. I know that I'm just talking about stuff but the idea is sound. When things are lost to us, we launch a sort of search and rescue mission until we find them.
It really is the same thing here with Zacchaeus. He was one of the things that was lost. He knew it in his heart, and Jesus knew it and sought him out.
Jesus made his claim of ownership when He saw the little man sitting in a tree and called him down.

2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today."

Hearing what Jesus had said, Zacchaeus eagerly gave up his wicked ways and invited Jesus into his life and home.

6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."

Repentance and forgiveness, lost and then found, welcoming the Son of God into our lives.
Sounds familiar don't it?
Just as Jesus has launched His search and rescue mission to find us, we should be accepting that He has found us and go with Him.
It really kind of bugs me when I heard somebody say that they had “found God.”
God isn't lost, we are. We didn't find him, He found us right where He knew we would be, and at the right time in our lives that we would need Him the most.

Repent. Pray for forgiveness and invite Jesus to walk with you.