Lost...
Could I Help You?


A few weeks ago I went to a local shopping center to have lunch. The café where I ate was located at the very end of the shops in fact it was the last business. When I had finished my lunch I walked out to my vehicle which was parked in the very last row of parking spaces. As I neared my vehicle a woman stepped out from the parked cars. She was very well dressed, and an older lady. She walked straight toward me and as she came closer I asked, "Could I help you?" She did not speak until she was standing right in front of me. I could see the disturbed and distraught look in her eyes as she spoke. She said "I am lost". Then she continued and told me that she had ridden a bus to the shopping center to visit the pharmacy for her medicine. She explained that when she came out of the pharmacy she was confused and could not remember where to find the bus stop. She said she had walked and walked for some time and had no idea where she was. I asked her if she knew where she lived. She showed me an identification tag attached to her keys. I recognized the address, a local apartment complex, and told her that I would take her home. Her spirits seemed to revive immediately as she began to thank me. Later she told me that she was almost 90 years old. As I later began to think back to this incident my heart was challenged by the Spirit of God. How many do me meet every day as we go about our daily lives that are lost. How many do we look at and we can see the results of sin. Distraught, broken, sad, and bound with chains of sin. They do not speak out and say "I’m lost" but we can discern through the Spirit the lost condition. But then the real question – how many us as believers in Jesus Christ are walking close enough to the Lord that we could say to that individual "Could I help you?" We recognize the need, we can see in their eyes the pain of sin, we have the answer to their problems, but is our walk with the Lord so overflowing with the love of Christ that we can say to them, "For God so loved…and "Come unto me…and "the wages of sin is… The whole purpose of our mission is to go with the message of Jesus, to the "unreached" of the world and say, "Could we help you!"

 

 

02/2003