 “For the son of man came to seek and to save the lost”- Luke 19:10 Recently, I heard about a man lost in the city of Delhi in India. The man was found after several days by a policeman and, when asked how he lost his way, the man gave an astonishing reason, saying that he forgot his point of origin. In Luke 15, the Bible describes three types or conditions of being lost: 1) The lost sheep, whereby that which was lost wandered off in the wilderness and the only way it was found was through a search operation; 2) The lost coin, where the thing that was lost did not wander off but helplessly remained lost where it was dropped; 3) The lost son, where the lost sought his way back home and was found. We saw in these lostness the shepherd looked out, the women searched, and the father waited. They each did not give up on what they had lost. Francis Thomson, in his poem “The Hound of Heaven,” penned the relentlessness of God, “Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest; I am he whom thou seekest.” It was God who found Francis Thomson through a relentless pursuit. You may be lost in any of the ways described above, but ‘do not be disheartened’ says the Bible. ‘He will never forsake you,’ ascertains the word of God. You may be stuck or trapped in a position or place, unable to move as a coin, and utterly lost. Keep believing anyway. God will not rest, much like the woman who lost her coin, until He finds you. Like the lost son, you may have wandered and traveled far off, but remember what God has done in your life and get right with Him. He is waiting for you and He has not forgotten you. God is always searching, looking out, and waiting because you are precious to Him. "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; If I make my bed in the depth you are there." - Psalm 139:7-12 We can never be so lost for God to not be able to find us. The greatest search operation in the history of mankind is God sending His Son to save and to seek that which is lost. Wherever you are today, remember that, we are lost when we forget our origin - that is God. And we will never be found until we remember our destiny - that is God. Let not life in between deceive and dilute you but, instead, always be in constant check to get right with and get found by God. PRAYERGuide me, Lord, that I may walk through this day safe by your side. Guard my heart, my mind, and my steps that I may always be found in you. Amen! WANT TO SUBMIT A DEVOTIONAL?If you are interested in writing devotionals for TRINICY, please email us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from faithful servants of the Kingdom who have the desire and talent to communicate the word of God in a way that is relevant to our conservative Christian students, scholars, staff, and supporters!
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By Shokyuileng Hungyo | TRINICY.org  “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'” - John 8:12 The last thing two section forest officers expected to find at a check post in the state of Kerala in India was a baby - a one-and-a-half-year-old baby. The baby, with bruises on her face, had crawled her way into the check post in an area frequented by wild animals. She had fallen off a moving jeep at a sharp curve from her sleeping mother’s lap. “She crawled towards the ticket counter probably on seeing the light there,” noted one of the wildlife wardens. God has put in us an instinct to move towards light. Hold a candle near a child or place a luminous object somewhere near and the first thing that child will do is to draw towards that light, and possibly even try to touch it. The first thing we see in the creation account of Genesis is God calling light into existence, “let there be light.” The importance of light is that, with it, life is possible. We see again the guiding hands of light to the path of life in 2 Corinthians 4:6, “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.” At that time when a dispute arose as to who Jesus really was, Jesus spoke up for himself and said, “I am the light of the world,” indicating that He exposes what has been hidden and in him is life - eternal life. And appropriately C.S. Lewis penned, “by it (light) I see everything else.” There is a radar within each individual that seeks a beacon to guide us to the truth. St. Augustine, after a long pursuit of inner peace, wrote in his confession, “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in You.” We long for that light to shine upon us; we search for that light; we are unsettled, restless, and anxious until we find that light for whom humans are truly designed. Like the baby who crawled towards a distant light one evening in Kerala, there is much need for us to draw towards the Light which gives life. But Oh! - this light is different: it not only shines but also searches for that which is in the dark and brings it to light. For a Christian, the uncertainty of life and the gravity of sin has no power over us because Jesus said that “whoever follows me will never walk in darkness.” The uncertainty of life is eclipsed by the purpose and certainty we find in God and the gravity of sin is done away with the grace displayed in the person of Christ Jesus. “Put your hands into the hand of God” reads Minnie Louise Haskins’ poem "The Gate of the Year”: “And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.’” Jesus ended his line with an assurance that whoever follows him “will have the light of life.” What, then, do we do? Trust him and follow the path of light! After all, it is the only way to life. PRAYERFather, help me see Your light. Strengthen me to reach out for Your hand in every area of my life that is currently shrouded in darkness. Guide me in the path You have set before me and let me live a life that is truly a light to others around me. Amen. WANT TO SUBMIT A DEVOTIONAL?If you are interested in writing devotionals for TRINICY, please email us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from faithful servants of the Kingdom who have the desire and talent to communicate the word of God in a way that is relevant to our conservative Christian students, scholars, staff, and supporters!
By Shokyuileng Hungyo | TRINICY.org  “... The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.” - James 5:16 Monica pleaded to God continuously for years for her wayward son. One day, weeping, she sought help from a bishop, asking him to do something. The Bishop after seeing the persistence of the woman said prophetically, “Go your way; as surely as you live, it is impossible that the son of these tears should perish.” The son of this woman, (not mentioned in the Bible but surely a woman of faith in God’s eyes), was St. Augustine. “Pray continually,” wrote Paul to the Thessalonians. To the Philippians he also wrote, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present your request to God.” The Bible often reminds us to pray at all times not only because it is communication with God, but also because it is an act of submission to His authority. “Pray,” wrote Paul. “Pray continuously.” There is no such thing as an unanswered prayer. When we pray, it may not work out as we wish but it will surely work out as God wills and in doing so we know that He is God and He is good. C.S. Lewis noted, “I pray because I cannot help myself. I pray because I am helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time. Waking and sleeping it doesn’t change God. It changes me.” Lewis continues in his ‘No dreamer, but thy dream’; “Master, they say that when I seem To be in speech with you, Since you make no replies, it's all a dream --One talker aping two. They are half right, but not as they Imagine; rather, I Seek in myself the things I meant to say And lo! the wells are dry. Then, seeing me empty, you forsake The Listener's role, and through My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake The thoughts I never knew. And thus you neither need reply Nor can; thus, while we seem Two talking, thou art One forever, and I No dreamer, but thy dream.” Our times demand prayerful mothers like Monica, and fathers who are constantly on their knees, praying and pleading to God, as well as children in whose lips are prayer at all times. “Pray continually,” said Paul, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” prayerLord, You hear all prayers, even the groaning of the hearts. My prayer is this, Lord, that Your peace be upon Your people that we may understand Your ways. Amen. want to submit a devotional?If you are interested in writing devotionals for TRINICY, please email us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from faithful servants of the Kingdom who have the desire and talent to communicate the word of God in a way that is relevant to our conservative Christian students, scholars, staff, and supporters!
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