The Prodigal Returns

I had a season when I was discouraged and left the Lord and had gone out into the world. The wonderful news is that he never left me and when I returned there was rejoicing in my heart, and perhaps in heaven too?  The story of the prodigal son, is where the eldest son asks for his inheritance from his father. Upon receiving it he wastes it on his lusts and soon he was starving and he had no friends. To a Jew a pig was an unclean thing, but he had  a job with no pay feeding the pigs. He finally came to his senses.

Luk 15:17  “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 

Luk 15:18  I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. 

Luk 15:19  I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ 

Luk 15:20  And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 

Luk 15:21  And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 

Luk 15:22  But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 

Luk 15:23  And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 

Luk 15:24  For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate. 

Friend, the Father in heaven thinks the same of you. Come home and be received by your heavenly father. Jesus' shed blood still has paid for your sins. Receive him and he will receive you. Oh how happy we will be and we will spend eternity with those we love in heaven.

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