KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Lost
IN 1937, AMELIA Earhart set out on a 29,000-mile flight around the world...
With only 7,000 miles remaining, she took off from Lae, New Guinea, in search of Howland Island, 2,556 miles distant in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Her last radio reports were received by the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca positioned just offshore the mile-and-a-half long island. At 7:42 a.m., the ship picked up the message, "WE must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet." One hour later they heard the final words, "We are running north and south." Rescue efforts commenced immediately, but the $4,000,000 operation covering 250,000 square miles ended in disappointment. Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were lost at sea.
THOUGHT: Spiritual lostness involves a dangerous disorientation of the spirit. When a person is lost, it means he has lost touch with truth and reality. Important values have vanished from his radar screen. He is misguided in his beliefs and off course in his behavior. Lostness is losing one's way in life, morally, ethically and spiritually. And unless one repents, the repercussions are everlasting. (Aubrey Johnson)
KneEmail: "For what advantage is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?" ( Luke 9:25).