One of the words often used to describe this condition of man, is the word ‘lost’. Man was no longer in the possession of his owner. However, there is a beautiful promise hidden in this word, for if something is ‘lost’ it also implies that it belongs! A thief never becomes the rightful owner of what is stolen. The kingdom of darkness never became our natural home – it is always a kingdom in which we are lost, we never belong. The problem is that the longer one lingers in a foreign land, the less one remembers of where you came from and with time, the foreign becomes familiar. At the head of this dark kingdom resides the father of lies. All he ever gave birth to are lies – the rest of what he controls is stolen property. No matter how comfortable and familiar the stolen property becomes in his kingdom – he will never be their Creator, never their rightful owner. Although the father of lies took possession of all that was given to Adam, the rightful owner was still the Lord of heaven and earth for “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.”
Jesus once spoke about a lost coin and the determination of the owner to find it. The lost coin never lost its value … and the owner knows this. Although man began to forget his origin, our Maker never forgot His own. He always knew our value, despite our location or condition. Part of His plan to rescue us from the kingdom of darkness, was to remind us, to bring us back into a consciousness of our beginning in Him. From a human point of view, “… you forget the LORD your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens And laid the foundations of the earth”, but from God’s point of view, “…can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you”
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