Luke 15:8-10 – Keeping your relationship complete

The story of the lost coin is the second parable in the series of three parables, recorded in Luke 15. In a similar vein as the first on the lost sheep, this story recounts how a woman lost one of her ten silver coins. The ten silver coins represented her cherished dowry. They were strung together like a belt. It was something that a woman would wear around her forehead on her wedding day. Each coin was worth a day's wage.

This woman in the story lost one of the coins. So she lit a lamp and combed through the floor from corner to corner. She left no dust unturned and searched everywhere for her lost coin. She would not spare any effort till that coin was found. We all can identify with this woman's helplessness and frantic search for something that had been misplaced. Isn't it? We can also identify with her "eureka" moment when she found it.

“I found it!” This was her triumphant exclamation. Such a joy is hard to contain. Immediately, she invited all her friends to rejoice with her in a celebration. Jesus said, similar joy would be found among the angels of God in heaven over one sinner who repents.

To have lost one of those coins would be reckoned as being unfaithful. Like that woman, we should also exercise the same diligence in our faithfulness toward God. Do make room in our lives for the Holy Spirit to search through our hearts.  We need to make amend in areas where we have been unfaithful in our relationship with Him. Be sure to let the searchlight of the Holy Spirit light up in your life!

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.