“So [the son] got up and went to his
father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was
filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him
and kissed him.” (Luke 11:20 NIV)
“Like the father of the Prodigal Son,
God can see repentance coming a great way off and is there to meet it. The
repentance is the reconciliation.” (Dorothy
L. Sayers)
“Today we need to learn what it means to
repent, to convert, to seek forgiveness; to learn how merciful the Father is to
those who truly come home and ask His forgiveness. Unfortunately today there are all too few who
come home; and if they do they come home to argue with the Father, and defend
their way of life rather than to recognize it as sin. Or worse they stay at a distance, like the
proud elder brother who values earthly goods more than the love of anyone, and
in the midst of moral and even physical ruin remains defiant to the last. It is
always the time for the alienated, the prodigal, the lost to come home, to
recognize the Eternal Love of the Father who did not spare His only Son, that
we might be forgiven and have a new life in Him.” (Rev. Mark A. Pilon)
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