Sonic’s franchise of games compels us to “go fast”… it’s kind of in the DNA of Sonic himself. But speeding through every level often means that I miss some of the imprisoned creatures that I am there to set free… these victims of Dr. Eggman that are trapped inside of his robot creations in each level are easy to miss if I am running too fast. While getting to the end of the stage typically releases multiple animal friends from their fate, there are also several that I will have to slow down and go out of my way to find within each level. Sure, I’d rather “go fast”… but saving them is part of the reason that I’m here.

It can be so easy to get caught up in pursuing our own personal goals and ambitions in life that we find ourselves running past the Lord’s main purpose for our lives… to slow down and go out of our way to seek and save those we’ve been sent to reach. Just as Jesus went to Samaria to reach one woman at a well and Phillip walked down a long dusty road in order to share the message of Christ with one traveling eunuch, these “Divine diversions” are designed to bring us into an intersection with just one hurting soul in search of answers… and they’ll require us to get out of our comfort zones and take a detour from our personal agendas. But seeking one lost sheep isn’t part of the mission, it IS the mission.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. Luke 15:4-5

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9

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