The Lost Coin

Are you like me? Do you pick up loose change and put it away? I got some quarters out of the floor and added them to a change purse. You only need twenty for five dollars or forty for ten. I can’t tell you how many times that I have had lunch that way, just going by the drive through window.

But looking for a lost coin when you have others is a parable of Jesus. Let’s look at the Word. In fact, it is in Luke 15, in the middle of others, Jesus tells of a shepherd who goes to find the lost one, leaving the ninety nine.

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” verses 9, 10

And then there is the prodigal son, another story and I have posts on that one too. But what about our woman? She has ten silver coins and one gets lost. So she sweeps and sweeps until she finds it and then invites her friends overt to celebrate.

Now, this coin is a silver drachma. It would have been worth about a hundred dollars a far cry from the widow’s mite, which was all she had. This woman still looks for it and when she finds it rejoices with her friends. Just as the angels rejoice over the sinner that is saved.

Like the lost sheep being returned to the fold or the prodigal. This is a good read about how Jesus rejoices over the salvation of sinner with the angels. Many times it is taught as one being returned to the fold, once that was lost is found is the way it reads but we tend to think of it, at least here in the south as a rededication to what we have already believed.

If you are truly born again, I don’t think you will stray far if you keep growing in grace. The prodigal was young but asked for his inheritance which was equal to wishing his father dead. We know that Jesus died for us and He is our inheritance. How dare believers abuse such grace? It happens, I see it a lot, though mostly I believe it to be people who only think they know Him.

The father could have had him stoned under Jewish law, but ran to greet him instead, and really the boy only came home hungry, knowing the man treated his servants better than he was living. It is a picture of God the Father.

It is so easy for people of all ages to fall in with the wrong crowd. Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals. 1 Corinthians 15:33, so what if your morals are not so good? I hate to even think of how far sin has brought people, but thankfully some of the lost will be found.