Luke 15:8-10 (ESV)
The Parable of the Lost Coin
[8] “Or 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? [9] And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, “FOR I HAVE FOUND THE COIN THAT I HAD LOST.’ [10] Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of GOD over one sinner who repents.”
HOW MUCH CONTROL DID I HAVE ON JULY 09, 2007??? “MY PLANS” on this day was to begin fundraising for a nonprofit organization focusing on underprivileged students whose conditions were not conducive for success in life. But I couldn’t even walk nor talk to be understood by even those I loved!! Not only for the time I was hospitalized, but for almost two years GOD kept me on a journey that basically entailed my buying back the insurance agency I had sold a year before and allowing me to work for 15 more years!
GOD ordained me to work as my own boss and still have the freedom to BE STILL AND KNOW (UNDERSTAND) THAT HE WAS GOD!!! I was just a “tool” to be used by HIM, but I had to be MADE AWARE of that TRUTH so I could SPEAK about it!!!
The woman JESUS spoke about in the passage of Scripture above had only lost 10 percent of her savings, something that she would have been able to overcome. Certainly I would have shrugged off the loss and gone on about trying to make more money? But she LIT A LAMP AND SWEPT HER HOUSE AND SOUGHT DILIGENTLY UNTIL SHE FOUND IT!
“FOR I HAVE FOUND THE COIN THAT I HAD LOST” was a JOY that her actions readily displayed! Her love and appreciation for the gifts ALMIGHTY GOD had PROVIDED her with had to be observed in obscurity and solitude. She KNEW that she had been RESTORED to her previous position in life, “FOR I HAVE FOUND THE COIN THAT I HAD LOST”!!!
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