"Radar Love"

"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it." (Psalms 94:15)
Not your average castaway, that is for sure! A true castaway is someone who is dependent upon someone finding them and being found; but not us, because we were never really lost. Our situation is more about having not asked! James says, "yet ye have not, because ye ask not." (James 4:2b) Our loving Father is in the business of restoration and redemption; He loves to forgive us of our sins and trespasses. More than that, He loves make something good out of something that is bad, something alive out of something dead, something righteous out of something that is horribly wicked. That's what grace is really all about: it is God's way of making us righteous, which means that we have been given a right standing with Him. We hear people quote Paul's famous two verses from his letter to Ephesus, the ones which say, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast;" but it does not stop there. In the very next verse, Paul continues the narrative in total agreement with what James says in his letter, another famous verse, "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." (James 2:26) Although James way of saying things cuts right to the point, Paul has more of a spiritual way of saying things, and he makes it all seem more God ordained than practical. Observe: "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." In other words, Paul is saying that the works we should be walking in, are those things that have been preordained to bring Him glory. It's not about us doing to complete our salvation, or even to show forth righteousness; it's all about bringing glory to God through the lives we have been given in Christ. Now about that title: it might appear outdated, but the general idea is still the same; we are to be governed by love and reconciliation, the two things that bring us back to God and make our hearts break for those that are separated from God. It might not be a radar that does it, but it is the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is what guides us, not only back to the Father, but to those who need reconciliation. Those are the preordained works that God has in store for us, to be about His business; whether that is planting, watering, or bring in the harvest; it's all about bringing glory to Him! If we are a castaway and feel alone and worthless, it's only a matter of asking to be taken off your island and to be used as you were meant to be used...
"Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.") No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow -not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below -indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35-39) NLT