Jesus Came to Search Out and Rescue

There is something particularly sad about it. Something that doesn’t have much to do with physical circumstances or the economy or any of the stuff that gets talked about in the news. It’s more like a stomach level sadness. I see it in myself and my friends in different ways. It manifests itself as a kind of lostness. The sadness is a real American type of sadness. I was white, upper middle class, obscenely well educated, had way more career success than I could have legitimately hoped for, and was sort of adrift. A lot of my friends were the same way. Some of them were deeply into drugs. Others were unbelievable workaholics. Some were going to singles bars every night. You could see it played out in 20 different ways, but it’s the same thing. I get the feeling that a lot of us privileged Americans, as we enter our early 30s, have to find a way to put away childish things and confront stuff about spirituality.
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

  A Kind of

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. – Luke 19:10

  Jesus came to and

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) – John 4:9

  When would give up?

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?” – Luke 15:4 NLT

  Jesus gives up

And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. – Luke 15:5 NLT

All scripture is from the New American Standard Version unless otherwise noted