My Object Lesson

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Written by Sandy Axton

I had just received some new materials for my scrapbooking, (which I immensely enjoy doing when I can get a chance).   I went to look for my scrapbook, which I keep in my big blue bag with my supplies, scissors, etc.  I opened the closet, and pulled out the bag, only to discover that the scrapbook was gone.    And so, the search began to find it.   I began to look everywhere…closets, drawers, baskets, and every place imaginable that it could be. The scrapbook is a large 12” by 12”, so it should have been easy to find.  I told my husband that it was gone, and asked him if he had seen it, to which he replied “No”.   The search continued with him helping me, but to no avail.   

Then, I remembered that my daughter was just home for the holidays.  Maybe she took it by mistake.   I tried calling her all evening with no response. I was frantic!  I have pictures in there that I only have one of, that cannot be replaced.  My husband asked, “Have you asked the Lord to help you find it?” “No”, I replied, “I didn’t want to bother the Lord with that”.  But, when I awoke the next morning, after a restless night, I decided I needed to Lord’s help. Sitting in my rocker and talking to the Lord, He spoke to me. “Look in the second drawer of your chest of drawers. Because you keep clothes in that drawer, you wouldn’t put it there.”  I got out of my rocker to look thinking, “I didn’t check that drawer for that very reason”.  When I opened the  drawer, there it set, as pretty as you please. 

The tears flowed.  It’s a lady thing, no, a God thing. I began thanking Him for helping me.  He continued to speak to me “It is the same way with lost souls. You look where you think they are, or should be. You reason away that this person isn’t hungry for God. But it is the very ones that you bypass, thinking they are content, when they are starving for more of God. Start looking in places or at people that you think are unlikely to be hungry for more of God.”

Thank you, Lord, for that reminder.  Now my daily prayer is, “Help me to search in the unlikely places to find someone to tell about you, Lord.”  As I was frantically searching, desiring to find my possession, I was thinking of the parables of The Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, and The Prodigal Son.   I was reminded that a lost soul is so very valuable, non-replaceable, and only one of a kind, too. “Thank you, Jesus, for my very own object lesson”.