the summer of my senior year in highschool i selected OBU *ouachita baptist university* to attend...well that summer i got into a msn chat room and asked is anyone going to obu this year?...well someone came back and responded yes..it was a girl...but she wouldnt be able to go till she grad. that next year..so i added her to my list..we talked off and on but not about anything deep....found out she was talking about oklahoma baptist university..we laughed but that next summer...i dated a girl whose mom shook my faith..i almost gave up entierly on christianity and God...then that girl i added...poppped up on my msn one day...and i just felt compelled to tell her what was going on..so i told her everything...her and her mom shared and prayed with me for weeks..i came back to Christ..i was already a Christian but i needed help..that girl became my best friend...the more we talked on the net and phone the more we found a connetion with each other..*btw she lives in kansas i live in arkansas*...her mom said we needed to meet to see what would happen..well we prayed and we met..we started dating the next day..for 2 months we dated...it was totally amazing..then we began to get our focus off God...the relationship was then tainted and so our relationships with our family and friends...we decided we needed to break up to get our foucs back..to give it all to God..and we have been...i'm stilll working at it...but ever since we broke up we talked off and on like we first did before we found that connection...tonite i didnt plan on talking to her but she imed me and said she needed to talk to me..she wanted to...the last time she said that was a while back...i dont know whats to come of us..i just want God to rule all and for each of us to do his will...she is really confused right now and is struggling a bit...she says she wants to talk me me and confide in me...i know she wants to but i'm afraid she might get feelings again or something...i do not ask that you pray for us to get back together..but that she grows in the Lord..TREMENDOUSLY!...she has such a good witness..she is a great christian and is obviously been blessed by God...i hate to see her like this...but she needs to figure this out on her own..so pray..pray that she will make sense of it all and make it through this dark time...and pray for me..that i grow further in my walk with God and grow in him...thank you all who have taken time to read this...may God bless and keep you all safe.....God Bless...

While there are obviously diffrent views here it goes to show that there are and have been many sermons preached over this parable taught by Jesus..but how did Jesus really mean for this to be taken? Focus not on this particular passage but on the other two parables along with this one..each refers to being lost and found again..the lost sheep...a shepard loses one sheep out of many and goes to find it...the woman loses a coin and seraches for it endlessly..then finaly we come to the parable of the prodigal son..who leaves home with his share and spends it all on stuff...later he realizes that he had it better back home with his father...these have a common thread that tie them together..all were once lost and now are found...though diffrent meanings of lost and found...when a person commits thier life to Christ they are not only found they have found God..he has been there the entire time but like the prodigal son who thought he could have more happiness with worldly possesions and money and friends he didnt realize until he had hit rock bottom that his life back home was much better...this can be taken also as a belvier that has backsliden to an old life style realizing that God's way is the only way...and new beilver coming to Christ is just realizing this...sorry if this sounds choppy and out of order...the other parables speak almost the same...God will not give up on a fallen beliver..he is always searching for a way to call them back..to "find" them if you will...once God has found them again he calls them back...by that point it is up to the beliver or non-believer to go back to God..but whether or not they refuse...God will keep calling..even to the point of a dull whisper...

             God Bless.....

ok its like 1 in the morning where i am at..i am a college student at OBU *ouachita baptist university* i cant sleep right now lol...i'm not doing this cuz i dont have anything to do but to discover other belivers on the net that are excited about Christ..and to have the knowledge that i can pray for others and aid in what advice i can give as well as receive and learn..currently i am reading through Jeremiah..God just told me one day read jeremiah..so i am....i'm not good at scripture memorization but i'm getting to learn why God did what he did and how we should follow jeremiah's example and do what God says..and if we have a problem..tell God he will listin no matter what..ok well i have rambled on enough..may God Bless and keep you all safe...in Christ love...me ^_^