That Which Was Lost by Dickey Porter

“That Which Was Lost” by Dickey Porter             

LK 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Who can even imagine in his heart or mind what our heavenly Father must have felt when Adam and Eve made the decision to partake of the forbidden fruit? By eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in direct disobedience to the will of the Lord, our loving Father God lost something that caused him to sacrifice his only begotton son so that he could restore “that which was lost”.

Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and his ways are higher than our ways. Who would be so presumptuous to assume to know what God thinks about all this? Was it just his man and woman who failed miserably that he wanted to redeem? Or was it something far deeper?

My entire life, I have been under the impression that Jesus came to save the lost sinner. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16 actually says this. Perhaps this is only a surface truth. What if this is only the first dimension of God’s redemption plan?

The second dimension of God’s redemption plan could very well be our growing up into him, who is the head, even Christ. As we learn who we are in him and who he is in us, we grow up together with him until we come to perfection (maturity). But is this dimension, as sweet as it is, “that” which was lost?

We can think of the Lord fulfilling the old covenant, setting that aside through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, so that his new covenant would come into being in the earth. Surely he came to establish his kingdom, yet when asked about his kingdom by the ones who crucified him, he replied that his kingdom was not of this world. So, what is “that” which was lost?

Perhaps the third dimension of God’s redemption plan is the restoration of the relationship and the fellowship of God and his man, yet there are portions of that in both the first and second dimension experiences with God. Is this the “that” which was lost?

One could say that all of the above, along with healing the sick, raising the dead, delivering the captives, destroying the yoke of bondage, and giving us power and victory over the enemy are all a part of “that” which was lost, yet I sense in my spirit that there is something more to it than what we have alluded to.

We are or we should be in constant transformation as we yield our members to God as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is our spiritual service. We have the life of Jesus living inside our spirits. (Our life is hid with Christ in God). We have the Holy Spirit given to us as the down payment on the life that is to come. God’s love has been shed abroad in our hearts by his Spirit that has been given to us.

I believe the “that” which was lost is God’s life. When God took the elements of the earth, and by wisdom, formed Adam from the dust of the earth, and so wonderfully and intricately created a being that was made in God’s own image and likeness, it became the Lord’s crowning creation. Each one ever born from that creation would have so much in common, yet each one so uniquely individual that no two humans would ever have the exact DNA. Each would have their own song.

The Word so carefully, so lovingly, arranging the body structure with every bone, nerve, muscle tissue, and organs so much in tune with its creator and working with each other to produce a being that would live forever. The blood coursing throughout the body like a river bringing all that every part would need to sustain life. The life is in the blood of Jesus.

After finally finishing the formation of the body that this man would live in, the Word then breathed into the nostrils of Adam, and man became a living soul. The living soul of man was the Spirit of God and Adam was so in tune with God that he was called the son of God.

What happened when Adam and Eve chose to live independently is that they lost God’s life that was living on the inside of them. Death moved in when God’s life moved out of Adam and Eve. The whole universe must have been shaken when the rebellion of Adam took place and even now is groaning and in travail as it awaits the manifestation of the sons of God.

Through deception, Eve was beguiled by the serpent, but Adam was not. He chose the path of rebellion by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This allowed a renegade spirit that we know as the devil or Satan to be loosed upon this earth. This evil spirit knows only to steal, kill, and destroy. This is a deceiver and an antichrist spirit.

Jesus said, “I am come that you might have life and that more abundantly”. The son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Jesus took our death, and his life moved back into us when we accepted his sacrifice for our sin.

Father God wants his life back in us more than we can ever realize. Not just for our sakes, but for his namesake as well. I have recently come to the revelation of just how much the Lord wants to restore us to the level of sons and daughters of God.

I have always been an emotional person. I realize that we can have an emotional experience without anything happening in the Spirit, but you cannot have a spiritual experience without your emotions getting involved. Certain songs would invoke tears to flood my eyes without warning. Sometimes when I want to say something to someone, I get so choked up that words can hardly be expressed.

I have prayed about this for years and asked the Lord why I get this way. I would search my heart to see if there was any unforgiveness in my heart for anyone or hidden sins that would cause me to react this way. I just didn’t have any answers.

Then in a prayer meeting with a group of men before a morning service not long ago, it suddenly dawned upon me why I cry like this for no apparent reason. I heard the pastor say during that prayer meeting that Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost, not them who are lost, and it suddenly hit my spirit like a ton of bricks. The pathos that I was feeling and the tears that were flooding my eyes, weren’t mine at all, but Father God who is in me was weeping for his children.

Jesus wept over Jerusalem. He knew what his purpose was and that he could give them life, but Jerusalem had rejected him. He also wept at the tomb of Lazarus, but for a different reason. In that case, he was fulfilling Scripture that says that we are to rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep. He was obeying a spiritual principle.

Abba Father. How much you must love us. Draw us closer to you this day, I pray. Get us so close that we can feel your heartbeat as we lean upon your breast. Thank you for restoring that which was lost to us. As we live out our days upon the earth, I thank you for preparing the place for us in your house where there will be life without end. We are already there in spirit as we are sitting with you in heavenly places, and one day will be bodily when we put off this terrestrial body and put on our celestial body and will shine forever as we reflect your glory throughout all eternity.