You broke the law. Now you're on the run. It's not your best moment or your proudest. As far as you're concerned, if no one ever finds out about what you did, how you acted, how low you stooped, that would be just fine. You did and said things you promised yourself you'd never do or say. You put yourself in positions you never dreamed you'd be in.
Then something great happens. God finds you. He sends you someone who not only understands where you've been and where you're going, but actually has answers that make sense. You find forgiveness. You find restoration. You find usefulness. You find hope.
God did it thousands of years ago with a runaway slave named Onesimus, and he can do it with you. Onesimus found himself on the wrong side of the law and the wrong side of the conflict with his master, Philemon, and ran. But in the process he found the Apostle Paul who showed him salvation through Jesus Christ. He found his Kingdom purpose and his destiny.
In Philemon 15-16, Paul writes, "It seems you lost Onesimus for a little while so that you could have him back forever...Now he will mean much more to you both as a man and as a brother in the Lord."
That's just like God. He can find you and take you in your lowest moment, your darkest hour, and turn you right around. If you let him, he can take that heart that seems so distant and dead and make it alive in Christ, useful in the Kingdom.
Sometimes he lets us get lost for a little while, so he can get us back forever.
Then something great happens. God finds you. He sends you someone who not only understands where you've been and where you're going, but actually has answers that make sense. You find forgiveness. You find restoration. You find usefulness. You find hope.
God did it thousands of years ago with a runaway slave named Onesimus, and he can do it with you. Onesimus found himself on the wrong side of the law and the wrong side of the conflict with his master, Philemon, and ran. But in the process he found the Apostle Paul who showed him salvation through Jesus Christ. He found his Kingdom purpose and his destiny.
In Philemon 15-16, Paul writes, "It seems you lost Onesimus for a little while so that you could have him back forever...Now he will mean much more to you both as a man and as a brother in the Lord."
That's just like God. He can find you and take you in your lowest moment, your darkest hour, and turn you right around. If you let him, he can take that heart that seems so distant and dead and make it alive in Christ, useful in the Kingdom.
Sometimes he lets us get lost for a little while, so he can get us back forever.
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