The Prodigal Son talks his father out of his future inheritance, leaves home and lives to gratify every whim and desire of the flesh. When his money runs out his friends run out. The far country, a land of wine, women and song, becomes a land of weeping, worry and sorrow. He finds out too late that sin carries with it a high price tag.
Luke 15:18-20 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
The bewildered son didn’t expect this. His father had longed, looked and lived for his return.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son demonstrates the love and grace of our Heavenly Father when a sinner comes home and confesses his sin. There’s rejoicing in Heaven, there’s rejoicing in the House of God, and there’s rejoicing in the heart of the redeemed sinner.
No matter what you’ve done, you can always come home. Every soul is precious to God.
