From Eliyahu
Consider this:
Have you ever lost
something precious to you, and after every possible search you just could
not find it? When that happens you are left to the good will of your
neighbors to discover it at random, and then return it to you. In that
situation, you know you probably will never see the lost item again. What a
delight it is when your lost item is unexpectedly returned to you! Here are
a few true stories:
Montreal residents Shoshana and Dez
thought their priceless photos of New York City were gone forever after
they lost their digital camera’s memory card during a 2008 trip. They
posted an ad on Craigslist, but nothing turned up.
Found: The couple was shocked when the memory card arrived in the
mail—three years later. Kelly Sullivan, a Museum of Modern Art attendant
who was working the day Shoshana and Dez visited, had noticed the tiny
memory card on the museum floor. She posted the photos to
ifoundyourcamera.net, where Nicole Backs, a student in British Columbia
stumbled on them while idly looking through photos. Backs had recognized
Shoshana as a friend of her mom’s, and the card made its way back home.
“What were the odds?” said Backs. - Readers Digest
What Amy Harris saw
in the shallow water along the bank of Redfish Lake in Idaho wasn’t a
bolt, as she suspected—it was a gold wedding band. She posted her find
on Craigslist, but when no one had claimed the ring four months later,
she all but gave up finding the owner.
Found: As a last-ditch effort, Harris’s husband Jody called his old
friend, Richard Black, a jeweler in the next town, for advice on what to
do with the ring. Black asked, “Did you find it in Redfish Lake?” The
surprised couple found out that Alair and Dana Schroeder had recently
stopped by Black’s shop—to buy a replacement for the ring Alair lost
that summer at the lake. The same ring! Harris dropped off the band at
Black’s shop, and, by Thanksgiving, Alair had her ring back. - Readers
Digest
Here are a couple more
examples from boredpanda.com: |
 
I don't know any of these folks who went to great pains to return
the lost items mentioned in these stories. I wonder if any of them know
that they were obeying a Torah commandment by returning the items?
Deuteronomy 22:2 tells us what to do in the case of finding someone's
lost item:
"If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then
you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until
your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him. 3 So
you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you
shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and
you have found."
Because most people today know nothing of the Torah I assume most of
these folks don't either. Yet, they obeyed the Torah commandment without
even knowing it! Paul the apostle wrote this about such people:
"For it isn’t the hearers of the Torah who are righteous before
Elohim, but the doers of the Torah will be justified (For when Gentiles
who don’t have the Torah do by nature the things of the Torah, these,
not having the Torah, are a Torah to themselves, in that they show the
work of the Torah written in their hearts..) in the day when Elohim will
judge the secrets of men, according to the Good News, by Yeshua the
Messiah." Romans 2:13-16
I find stories like these encouraging,
reminding me that there are unknown people in the world who have "the Torah
written in their hearts" and who act accordingly as good people and as good
neighbors. There is a blessing of the Torah that will come to them for the
good they do, even though they don't know the Torah at all. How much better
though, to know the Torah and to intentionally keep His commandments in all
we do! This elevates our actions to more than good deeds, but to actually
doing the work of building His Kingdom in His nation, as fellow-workers with
Him.
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Kingdom.
Blessings and good health to you,
Eliyahu
Tsiyon.Org
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