“Even in all that mess, the ring looked just beautiful…” Those were the words of Mildred Fello of Miami Beach. She had accidentally discarded her four thousand dollar diamond ring in a plastic laundry bag. She realized what had happened minutes after the garbage men had picked it up. Miss Fello then went to the dumping center and sorted through the refuse. Together with the garbage crew, she finally came upon the blue bag with the diamond intact. Her relief and joy are understandable – and her searching and finding of that valuable diamond reminds me of an even greater search. Dr. Luke, human author of the Gospel bearing His name, speaking of the coming of our Savior into this world, wrote, “The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” As valuable and desirable as a diamond is, it does not compare with the value of a soul. As Jesus once asked, rhetorically, “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?”

Pastor Alex Rockwell