The Lost Get Found

"So when you get the chance, are you gonna take it? There's a really big world are your fingertips, and you know you have the chance to change it." ~Britt Nicole

Yesterday, at church, my friend Lexi and I sang "The Lost Get Found" By Britt Nicole, in service. After a few weeks of rehearsal, and six months of waiting, it was finally time.

This weeks sermon was about the man at the pool of Bethseda, who had been an invalid for thirty eight years.

John 5

The Healing at the Pool

1Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.[b] 5One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."

8Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."

11But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

12So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"

13The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Kristen, the woman who assisted us with practices and organized the whole thing, said that she couldn't think of a better time to sing the song. "'The scripture is telling us, showing us, about how the man was healed. How Jesus healed many others, most of whom began to praise the Lord immediately after. He's finding the lost.'"

So even though my hand was shaking violently, even though my heart was heavy with nerves, I went up there and sang my heart out, for God, for Kristen (who is leaving this weekend), and for myself.

I was lost. But because of God, now I'm found.

"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind, but now I see." -Amazing Grace: Hymn