Seeking and Saving
One test of the righteousness of our responses to the situations we face or discuss could be to ask ourselves how well they line up with the work of reconciliation and restoration and redemption. He is still at work seeking and saving things and people that were lost to Him.
But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”
“Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
(Luke 19:8-10 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©)
Douglas Thomas