God invites us to seek him
Jesus told of a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost son in the 15th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. He described the diligent search for each and the joy experienced, as each were recovered. Finding lost items is difficult enough, much less finding something you hadn’t previously possessed. I like the following brief story of how the Planet Pluto was discovered. It had been there all along, just waiting for someone who would have the determination and persistence to find it. Persistence paid off for American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto. After astronomers calculated a probable orbit for this “suspected” heavenly body, Tombaugh took up the search in March 1929. Time magazine recorded the investigation: “He examined scores of telescopic photographs each showing tens of thousands of star images in pairs under the dual microscope. It often took three days to scan a single pair. It was exhausting, eye-cracking work—in his own words, ‘brutal, tediousness.’ And i...