BBD 10.15.21 If You Are Lost

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Classic from 2003

The Burning Bush Devotional

15 October 2021

(Later
this month I will be having back surgery and delivery of the devotional will
likely be sporadic for a few weeks.)

If You Are Lost

For by
grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, once
Gentiles in the flesh…that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who
once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. - Ephesians
2:8-20.

Luc
Goguen had the most unpleasant experience of being lost for four days. Not only
was he lost but he was lost in the dangerously cold environment near his home
in Cocagne, New Brunswick. Luc lost control of his all-terrain vehicle and was
forced to try to walk out of the backwoods. Along the way back he fell in a
swamp and lost his boots. Because of being soaked from his fall and the bitter
cold in the snow-covered environment he suffered severe hypothermia, frostbite
and was disoriented when he was found. Luc said about the experience, “I believe it’s a miracle. I never stopped praying.”

All who
are without a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ are spiritually lost and are
living in a most dangerous environment. Their lives are out of control and the
longer a person is spiritually lost the more dangerous their condition becomes.
98% of all professions of faith in Jesus come before the age of nineteen. 68%
of all professions of faith occur between the ages of 9 and 14. It is not
impossible to be saved as an adult but as age increases it becomes more and
more unlikely.

The
Bible clearly describes the pitiful condition of those who are lost
spiritually:

The
lost are without life. “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not
have life (1 John 5:12).” We have
eternal life only through Jesus.

The
lost are without true peace. “‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked (Isaiah 57:21).’” Only through Christ can we truly have peace. “For He Himself is our peace (Ephesians 2:14a).”

The
lost are without spiritual strength. “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly (Romans 5:6).” We have strength
through Christ as the apostle Paul says in Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

The
lost are without hope and without God. “…having no hope and without God in the world (Ephesians 2:12c).” Our God, however, is a God of hope. “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 15:24).”

The
lost are without excuse. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation (Hebrews 2:3a).” “For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse
(Romans 1:20.”

So, if
you are lost let me suggest that you do as Luc Goguen did - PRAY! Pray
and ask God through Jesus Christ to save you. Jesus is saying even now
to you, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with
him, and he with Me (Revelation 3:20).” Why
not pray right now? Open up the door of your heart and invite Jesus
to come in.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for comfort and
peace for those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and healing for the
wounded. Please pray for the Americans and others left behind in Afghanistan. May
they all look to the Lord for help….

Please pray for the people
of Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to
God. Please pray for protection of our troops wherever they may be and help for
Americans and others who have been left behind and those who are fearing for
their lives there in that place. May God help them all!!

Please pray for those
affected by the hurricanes!

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Brandy
and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke;
Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins;
Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; Larayne S. and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. Having back surgery in a few weeks. 03.18.18
I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City,
Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to [email protected]

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2003

The Burning Bush Devotional

15 October 2021

(Later
this month I will be having back surgery and delivery of the devotional will
likely be sporadic for a few weeks.)

If You Are Lost

For by
grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, once
Gentiles in the flesh…that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who
once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. - Ephesians
2:8-20.

Luc
Goguen had the most unpleasant experience of being lost for four days. Not only
was he lost but he was lost in the dangerously cold environment near his home
in Cocagne, New Brunswick. Luc lost control of his all-terrain vehicle and was
forced to try to walk out of the backwoods. Along the way back he fell in a
swamp and lost his boots. Because of being soaked from his fall and the bitter
cold in the snow-covered environment he suffered severe hypothermia, frostbite
and was disoriented when he was found. Luc said about the experience, “I believe it’s a miracle. I never stopped praying.”

All who
are without a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ are spiritually lost and are
living in a most dangerous environment. Their lives are out of control and the
longer a person is spiritually lost the more dangerous their condition becomes.
98% of all professions of faith in Jesus come before the age of nineteen. 68%
of all professions of faith occur between the ages of 9 and 14. It is not
impossible to be saved as an adult but as age increases it becomes more and
more unlikely.

The
Bible clearly describes the pitiful condition of those who are lost
spiritually:

The
lost are without life. “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not
have life (1 John 5:12).” We have
eternal life only through Jesus.

The
lost are without true peace. “‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked (Isaiah 57:21).’” Only through Christ can we truly have peace. “For He Himself is our peace (Ephesians 2:14a).”

The
lost are without spiritual strength. “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly (Romans 5:6).” We have strength
through Christ as the apostle Paul says in Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

The
lost are without hope and without God. “…having no hope and without God in the world (Ephesians 2:12c).” Our God, however, is a God of hope. “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 15:24).”

The
lost are without excuse. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation (Hebrews 2:3a).” “For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse
(Romans 1:20.”

So, if
you are lost let me suggest that you do as Luc Goguen did - PRAY! Pray
and ask God through Jesus Christ to save you. Jesus is saying even now
to you, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with
him, and he with Me (Revelation 3:20).” Why
not pray right now? Open up the door of your heart and invite Jesus
to come in.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for comfort and
peace for those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and healing for the
wounded. Please pray for the Americans and others left behind in Afghanistan. May
they all look to the Lord for help….

Please pray for the people
of Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to
God. Please pray for protection of our troops wherever they may be and help for
Americans and others who have been left behind and those who are fearing for
their lives there in that place. May God help them all!!

Please pray for those
affected by the hurricanes!

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Brandy
and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke;
Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins;
Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; Larayne S. and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. Having back surgery in a few weeks. 03.18.18
I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City,
Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to [email protected]

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by sending
a blank email to [email protected] and then respond to the
confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to [email protected] and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to [email protected] and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

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