Two camps....

There are really only two camps in this world of ours - those who have been found and those who are yet still lost. Depending on which one of these camps you find yourself in determines how you live (should be living) your life.

If you are in the 'yet still lost' camp your life will be lived based upon the ways of the world. Your focus will center more on self than others. Your hope will come from the perceived power of your own abilities to create opportunity. Love will be exhibited in a very conditional format. Materialism takes a substantial foothold. Truth is a very abstract concept and may appear to be relative depending upon the circumstances. Live for today, gathering as many toys and power and self-gratifying experiences as possible, for tomorrow I die - is the call of daily life.

Those who are in the found camp cannot expect those in the lost camp to act according to a biblical world view. Yet, we place expectations on the 'yet still lost' that creates friction - loving our neighbors does not mean that our neighbor (who is yet still lost) will think and act the same way as we who have been found and are instructed by God's Word do.

One will not understand nor follow the One that he does not yet know…yet, that is our expectation!

Might it be our heart's desire to be His bond-servant for His glory, filled with the Holy Spirit as He invites us to join in His work - full of grace and truth He came to seek and to save that which was lost…