There was a little boy who got separated from his parents in a large shopping center. The Security Department quickly located the child, and took him to an office while the frantic parents were paged over the public address. One of the security guards got a large ice cream cone for the boy, so when his parents arrived at the office, there was their little son happily eating his ice cream. Suddenly, as his parents embraced him, the child burst into tears. One of the security guards said, “Bless his heart, I guess he didn’t know he was lost until he was found!”

Sadly, there are many in our world (perhaps, even a friend or a family member), spiritually speaking, who are lost and do not even realize it. Many are sincere in what they believe religiously, but they are sincerely wrong. Solomon said, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Pro. 14:12). This is why we must get others to “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5).

As we strive to get others to examine the lives, we must always “speak the truth in love” (Eph 4:15). May we all have the love for our fellow man that Aquila and Priscilla possessed, as is seen in the following: “And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly” (Acts 18:24-16).

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