Hope For A Lost Loved One

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

Joh 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

 

A word of hope today for those of you who have loved ones caught up in sin and rejection of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  How bad can they be? Can they be as bad as Jacob when He outright lied to his dying father as he sought to steal the family blessing from his brother Esau?

 

If you recall, Isaac had asked Esau to hunt some wild game and prepare it for him as a savory meal, but Jacob brought a savory meal to him instead in a successful attempt to fool his dad.

 

Isaac smelled a rat and asked Jacob how he managed to catch and cook this game so quickly and can you believe Jacob’s reply?  Ge 27:20b, “Because the LORD your God brought it to me."

He lied about God! He brought God into his diabolical fabrication! Apparently Jacob didn’t give a rip about breaking one of God’s commands!  You  know, the one that says, Ex 20:7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

 

In spite of the seriousness of this sin, God did not give up on Jacob, and later on in his life, he got tangled up with an all night wrestling match with God

and everything changed! Jacob, in effect was born again and he no longer served the father of all lies, the devil

 

If God could save a diabolical liar like Jacob, if God could save me, if God could save you, He can save that lost loved one as well. Pray for that wrestling match to come to pass in their lives as God sends the hounds of heaven after your loved ones soul. Dear Jesus hear the bleat of that one lost sheep, leave the 99 and find them and save them.

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word