The Son of Man has come to seek and save those who were lost (Luke 19:10).
Someone asked Daniel Boone if in all his wilderness travels he had ever been lost. “No,” he drawled, “but once I was bewildered for three whole days.”
Bewildered in a wilderness. Sounds like the place to do that.
The great difficulty in rescuing the lost–the assignment God’s children have been handed by the Lord Jesus–is compounded when the subjects do not realize their dire situation.
How would one go about convincing a lost person he was lost? And why do that in the first place?
Clearly, if one is on-board the damaged Titanic and while scurrying to get off the doomed vessel with as many survivors as possible, he runs into partying passengers without the slightest awareness of their situation, he needs to tell them. He will want to alarm them even, and convince them to take action to save themselves. Whether they will listen is another story.
If we know the hurricane is coming and this neighborhood is about to be destroyed, we will do all in our power to alert the residents.
The days of our lives are finite and this world is doomed. Someone needs to tell the passengers.