You have difficulty keeping your heart alive and good in the face of ongoing, painful disappointment. Don’t let the simplicity of this statement prevent you from exploring the depth of its meaning. When Jesus said he came to save the lost, he was saying that our basic dilemma wasn’t an inability to solve the practical problems of living. Instead, he came to deal with an internal, abstract issue: the corruption in our hearts. When God told Samuel how to select the next king among Jesse’s sons, God