Lost and Found

Well what an amazing revelation i had last weekend. i went to a new level of understanding of how excited God is when His people are found by Him as well as when we find Him.

Well I had this amazing experience amongst many others when I had the pleasure of working with 13 other amazing leaders as we took 21 young people to the snow last weekend. words cannot express the gratitude I have for them as well as the blessing of seeing God work through them to bless 21 young people. It really was just awesome or as i would say TOPS!

Our speaker on camp shared the Story of The Lost Son (luke 15: 11-32). I love this parable for so many reasons and I always seem to learn so much every time I read it. The first day the speaker shared about the younger brother and his part of the story and then the next day he shared about the older son and the Father and once again the dicussion we had and the sharing from the speaker blew me away of how much god loves us and what he does for us if we are like the younger son or even if we act like the older son. Thanks God so much. you are so good.

We had some great conversations with the young people about this and it was good to hear their thoughts and where they are at.

On Sunday the day we travel home I had this amazing revelation Him. I was driving the Bus and we were about half an hour out of Queanbeyan towards Sydney and I realised I had lost a precious ring that I had brought. It is precious for many reasons. A couple of years ago God spoke to me about being beautiful and my inner beauty from Ephesisans and told me that I was more beautiful than gems etc. So as a symbol to remind me I went and bought a ring to remind me every time I look at it that I am more beautiful than it in God's eyes. It also cost me a bit of money so that was a little frustrating that I had lost it (although I can move on from that).

Anyway as I looked for it with the help of someone who's encourgement and support was fantastic I realised that it was probably gone and I would just have to let it go. I started to realise that must be difficult for God to let us go and hope and pray that we choose to follow Him and be embraced by His love. I realised that the ring althought it is important to me as you have heard above it dosen't come even close to God and my relationship and how much I would be sad and alone without Him and how much I mean to God. I am more precious than a ring. Also it is just a ring. like we were reflecting on the lost son on camp, souls are more important than rings etc. If I didn't get it back I had other options like buy a new one that is complety different, get another one made or just let it go. I had options.

Anyway we stopped to drop some of the young people off and we had another look. still couldn't find it and I realised I had lost it for good. I got to share about it with the remainder of the young people on the bus and they remeinded me to not give up Hope in letting go. I also said although I was sad I had lost it I still had my memories and I still know that God loves me. kind of like us sharing our faith. we still need to have hope and faith and not give up. Eternity needs us to share and take devine moments so God can do His amazing spirit led stuff.

We then dropped off the reminded of the young people and it all got a little overwhealing at how amazing the weekend had gone and the reminded from God that He can do anything.

I arrived home and told my mum and we logically said what I could do about it. I decided that I could ring the place that I thought I had lost it and ask them to look and apart form that I had decided to let it all go and be greatful for the revelation I had and That I am loved by the created. I am so blessed.

If the story ended there that would be beyond amazing however it doesn't.....

I went to get changed and somehow I was unpacking my bag and my ring either dropped out of my jumper or was in the bag from when I had packed in the morning. I had found my Ring!!!!!

I was elated. I screamed for joy. ran and told mum. just before I had found it mum had prayed and also some others as well that what would be would be. if I found it great.

anyway it is exciting that I found the ring. believe me. now I know even more so that I am much more important than the ring even though the ring is really beautiful. not because I found it, Just Because God loves me. The real lesson to learn is that God must cheer even more when we come to know him and we are so precious in his eyes. He loves us so much. I know that I only have a small understanding of His love for me and it is pretty good. I am open to being led by Him. I want to share with others how much He loves them and I want to get out there and see his Kingdom come on earth. see others expericence Him.

Good is So Good. It was such an awesome weekend and more stories to share later.