One of the worst things ever, is to lose your keys
Always happens when you’re running late
Natalie put in a key holder near the entrance to the door, saves my bacon more days than I’d care to admit.
Feeling when lost things are found?
Fantastic, isn’t it?
Lostness
Today we’re going to talk a lot about being lost.
Sometimes we think that the lost people are the skid row bums and the prostitutes and the ilk
And they’re lost
But sometimes, so are we
Today, we get the story of not One but TWO lost brothers
Only one of them gets found though.
Read the Passage
Story – The Far Country
Randy didn’t want to find himself lost
He started life like any kid but, according to him, he got full of himself
Then he got into drugs
Next thing you know, Randy robbed three convenience stores with a gun and is sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary.
I met him doing Kairos
He talks so powerfully about being lost but what’s interesting is if you take the details out of it, the emotions he describes, well, we all understand
You may never have been strung out on drugs or robbing stores, but if you’ve lived a few years on this side of eternity, you know exactly what it’s like to feel lost
IT’s a feeling that nobody is watching and that worse, nobody cares
It’s feeling that because nobody is watching and that nobody cares, you can do whatever you want
Seems like it’ll be freeing
No morality
No ethics
No rules
But living that way? It only amplifies your loneliness as life becomes a collection of hangers on and half-hearted friends who can’t be counted on.
In that self-manufactured isolation from others as well as God, we become inclined to selfishness
The selfishness is what dooms us.
Every one of us travels to the far country on occasion
Where is the Far country?
I always think of it as being Vegas
After all, there’s sin aplenty to be found there!
Everything the younger brother was after
Sex, gambling, the bright lights of the big city.
But it doesn’t have to be Vegas
It Could be North Carolina, it could be Charlotte, heck, the far country can and is on occasion no further away from us than Coulwood.
The fact of the matter is the far country is wherever we are when we’re travelling without God.
That’s what the Younger Brother wanted to do. He KNEW IT AND EVEN TOLD HIS DAD.
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