Have you ever been lost, really lost? It can happen anywhere: in a dark forest where you've lost the trail or in a crowded shopping mall where you've lost sight of Mom; on the backroads of Indiana where all you can see is corn or in the bustling canyons of New York City where the buildings block out the sun. You can be lost in a foreign country where no one speaks your language and you don't speak theirs. And you can be just as lost with a group of people who just don't understand what you are trying to say. And, of course, we can be lost within ourselves. It is this sense of lostness that the Apostle Paul recorded so eloquently in the letter to the Romans:

I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate ... For I do not do the good I want, b…