When People Are Lost and Spiritually Dead
Look around and you’ll see it. People chasing meaning, yet feeling empty. People living for pleasure, yet feeling hollow. People appearing alive on the outside, yet dead on the inside. Lost isn’t just a word for the rebellious. It’s the condition of every soul without Christ.
And what would Jesus do when surrounded by lost and spiritually dead people? He made it clear.
Luke 19:10 says, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Jesus didn’t sit back and wait for sinners to find Him. He went after them. He left heaven to enter a world of darkness. He pursued tax collectors, prostitutes, and outcasts. He ate with sinners, not to approve of their sin, but to call them out of it.
Jesus didn’t see lost people as hopeless. He saw them as worth saving. He saw them as sheep without a shepherd, and He came to bring them home.
So what would Jesus do when people are lost and spiritually dead?
He would not ignore them.
He would not judge them as beyond hope.
He would not write them off as too far gone.
He would pursue them relentlessly.
He would preach the truth that saves.
He would call them to repentance and new life.
How should we follow Him today?
Stop seeing lost people as the enemy. Start seeing them as Jesus does — souls in desperate need of saving grace. Share the Gospel boldly, without compromise. Love them patiently, without giving up. Pray for them fervently, knowing only God can bring the dead to life.
The lost need more than good advice. They need Good News.
Jesus came to seek and save — not to scold and shun. What would Jesus do today? He would go after every lost and wandering soul, preach the Gospel without apology, and lovingly say, “Come home.”