[Bible Trek Luke] God Sees What Is in Your HeartSample

God Loves the Lost

“When he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for him. He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him.” Luke 15:20

Read the Bible

Jesus loved to teach with stories. All three stories that Jesus told in today’s verses are about something or someone who is lost and then found. You can imagine the sadness of the man who lost his sheep, the lady who lost her coin and the father who lost his son! All three show us how important what they lost is to them, and all three show their happiness as they celebrate when what was lost is found!

Think about it

Jesus uses these stories to show us God’s love for the people who are “lost,” those that don’t have a relationship with him. He wants a relationship with everybody and sent Jesus to earth to make this possible! He tells us about the big celebration that happens in heaven when someone who was lost comes to know and follow Jesus! This shows us that God loves those who are lost.

Do something about it

Do you know people that don’t know Jesus? Write their names in your “FaithBook” (that you started in the first devotional plan of this series) with today’s date, and begin to pray for them every day. You may write:

I will pray for __________________ (write the name) to know and follow Jesus!

Ask Jesus to help you tell them about God’s love.

Talk to God

“God, thank you for your great love! Help me to show your love to others in the same way you show it to me.”