Meditations—points to ponder

Paul is describes lost people in his letters. 

We’re not lost because we are going to wind up in the wrong place … 

we are going to wind up in the wrong place because we are lost. 

To be lost means to be out of place. 

When we are lost to God we are not where we are supposed to be in His world 

and hence are not caught up into His Life. 

We cannot participate in His very great Promises …

2 Peter 1:4 (ESV) — 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Essentially, 'lostness' causes us to be our own god and our god can’t help us. 

When we are lost to God we are lost to ourselves—

we do not know where we are or how to get where we want to go. 

The lost in Christian terms are precisely those who mistake themselves for God. 

They falsely identify and cannot recognise what is closest to them—

namely themselves. Then, as we have noted, they really do think 

they are in charge of life … 

although admittedly, to manage it successfully they may have to bow outwardly 

to this or that person or power … but they are not in charge 

and they have no confidence in the One Who really is God.

Dallas Willard Renovation of the Heart—putting on the character of Christ p12-13

Romans 1:20–21 (NRSV) — 20 Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; 21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened.