Your Heavenly Father is saying, Come, Come Home to Me! He is wanting to run to you and welcome you home again! Can you hear him calling? Will you answer Him today? Will you tell Him that you are sorry and you want Him?
Your Heavenly Father is saying, Come, Come Home to Me! He is wanting to run to you and welcome you home again! Can you hear him calling? Will you answer Him today? Will you tell Him that you are sorry and you want Him?
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is found in Luke chapter 15, verses 11-32. The main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of God. In telling the story, Jesus identifies Himself with God in His loving attitude to the lost. The younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day,Luke 15:1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the Pharisees and teachers of the law of that day,Luke 15:2). The major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of Luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the Father. In the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (Luke 15:1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. We see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (Luke 15:1-7), to one in ten (Luke 15:8-10), to one in one (Luke 15:11-32), demonstrating God’s love for each individual and His personal attentiveness towards all humanity. We see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (Romans 2:4).
The picture of the father receiving the son back into relationship is a picture of how we should respond to repentant sinners as well (1 John 4:20-21;Luke 17:3;Galatians 6:1;James 5:19-20). “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We are included in that “all,” and we must remember that “all our righteous acts are like filthy rags” apart from Christ (Isaiah 64:6;John 15:1-6). It is only by God’s grace that we are saved, not by works that we may boast of (Ephesians 2:9;Romans 9:16;Psalm 51:5). That is the core message of the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
May the LORD bless you and keep you!
May the LORD deal kindly and graciously with you!
May the LORD bestow His favor upon you and grant you His friendship!
May the LORD bestow His favor upon you and grant you His friendship!
May the LORD bestow His favor upon you and grant you His friendship!
May the Lord bless you, Yes, may it be His will. Yes, may it be His will. And be gracious to you to you His face May the Lord shine Yes, may it be His will.peace to you and give to you May the LORD lift up His face Yes, may it be His will.
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