RETURNING HOME TO THE FATHER

And when he came to himself…. Luk 15:17a 

There are many who are lost like the prodigal son today. They left home. They went to ‘a far country’ to find life – but they found death there.

We are forever restless. And King Solomon gave us the best testimony of this in his Ecclesiastes. He had everything. But in the he despaired of it all, ‘Useless, it is all useless!’ His restlessness came to an end only after he returned home to his father. His Song is a divine testimony to that, ‘I found him whom my soul loveth’. God can give you such a song too in your darkness.

Abraham’s heart fluttered at the thought of a city built with ‘foundations, whose builder and maker is God.’ He lived in a tent but it is not a tent that was in his sight. It was a city. In this lockdown what do you see, a tent coming apart at the seams or a city?

The prodigal never saw the life that teemed at his father’s home. He only saw ‘a far country’. Have we taken God’s graces for granted for too long and now he is speaking very loudly so no one can fail to see or hear him?

No doubt before returning home the prodigal must have been a wreck not only physically but also mentally. Would he be forgiven? Would he be accepted? Could he overcome his shame or would he rather die? But thank God he came to himself at last! He might have remained a tragedy all his life – if he had not.

And so what is making you very restless at this present time? Before he left home the prodigal thought he knew himself very well. The pigs ‘in a far country’ taught him that he didn’t. And only after his return home to his father did he learn the truth - that he was a prince after all! What is this present crisis teaching you? May that lesson be your testimony to your children and children’s children for generations to come!

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