The lost LEGO piece
by Eden Bishop
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What woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? (Luke 15:8).
There’s nothing worse when you’re building a set of LEGO than realising that you’re missing a piece, especially if this piece is important for structural integrity. You must stop working and look until you find it. Otherwise, the set is not complete and cannot function properly.
The parable in this text highlights how we are utterly helpless until Jesus finds us. We are like lost sheep at the complete mercy of the elements. We are like inanimate objects such as a coin or even a lost piece of LEGO that can’t do anything to help itself. We are dead in our sin and hopelessly lost.
The good news is that we have a God who chases us down until he finds us. This parable tells us that we are not left in our helpless state because we are precious to God. We are valuable like the lost coin, part of God’s flock like the lost sheep, part of the set like the missing piece of LEGO. We can take comfort in knowing that God’s heart and concern are for those who have wandered from the flock. Sometimes it can be a little disheartening when we have friends or family members who have wandered off or haven’t yet come into God’s presence. However, we can take encouragement from this text, which tells us that God is a part of the search and provides his Holy Spirit to strengthen us and do the work.
We can also take comfort in knowing God pursues us and brings us into life, just like the woman who searches desperately for her lost coin. God searches for us because we cannot help ourselves, and he brings us into a relationship with him and into a community with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Now like a properly functioning and completed LEGO set, we are whole again in God’s presence and community.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you that you ceaselessly pursue us when we wander off. We also thank you for your promise to search for those we hold dear who haven’t yet come to you or have gotten lost. Amen.
Eden Bishop lives in Adelaide and is a member at St Paul Blair Athol. She attends the University of Adelaide and is in the final year of her Advanced Economics degree. Eden enjoys reading (particularly The Lord of the Rings), playing the piano in church, knitting and learning fun facts about dinosaurs.
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