As I read and reflect on the gospels, it’s amazing to see how Jesus surprised people with who God was. For instance, in Luke 15, the stories of the lost coin, the lost sheep and the lost son show us that this all -powerful, omnipotent God loves us beyond what we can think or imagine. The idea of “lost” that Jesus was trying to convey through these stories is that lost means that we are out of place until we enter into a relationship with God. Our original place of belonging was to be in relationship with God forever. When that was lost in Genesis 3, God has been trying to restore us to Himself. Today, that restoration with God happens when we invite Christ to be our Lord and Savior and choose to follow Him.