God Keeps Looking

While swimming of the South Pacific island of Saipan, Jessica Spinks lost her class ring. The 2000 graduate of Alton High School thought her ring was forever lost to the ocean waters. However, on Thursday (May 3, 2007) Spinks received a phone call that her ring had been found, according to the Associated Press article. While scuba diving off the coast the northern Mariana Islands, Greg Moretti found the lost ring.

Like a scuba diver searching for lost jewelry, our God is relentless in seeking for us when we have become lost. In our journeys through life, we often become distracted and side-tracked and we venture far from the shore. We feel alone and lost in the depths of life's waves. We often don't feel that we have the strength to swim to the shore and be found, but inwardly we desperately want to be rescued from the watery abyss.

God himself dove into the waters of this life and he began searching under every rock and crevice for those who are lost. Jesus made it his life mission to "seek and save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10). If you feel lost and alone in life's depths, know that God is searching for you. He is seeking you. He looks into your lonely room, he searches your inward hiding places, he looks under the piles of worry that you carry. Our God will not rest until he finds you. When he discovers you on the bottom of life's ocean floor, he reaches out his hand and invites you to be found. But when the light of his presence illuminates the place where you are lost, it is up to you to take his hand.