THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL (ePub)

One fateful Wednesday morning, the story hit me with such a powerful force that I was speechless for some moments! I had read the story of the prodigal son in the Bible many times before but the story never ministered to me the way it did on this Wednesday morning. All of a sudden, it was as if a switch had been turned on in myheadandthestorytookawholenewlineofmeaninginmylife.The Holy Spirit began to show me that this is the story of my life. T hegrace extended to the prodigal son in the story is the same type of grace I have received from God and this is the message that the Holy Spirit wants me to testify to: that is, the unlimited grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to the lost, the wayward, the incorrigible and the damned. T heLord stands ready to show His divine favor and grace on all who would dare to return from the wilderness. He dares us to return to Himandsee whether He really is just and faithful to forgive us all our iniquities as He promised through His prophets. It is one of the greatest tragedies of the human race that we keep repeating the sorry stories of sorry people we have read or heard about. Perhaps an even greater tragedy is the readiness with which we are ready to dismiss stories of tragedy and mischief involving others as something very alien to us personally. We often view such stories as nothing more than 'stories' that have nothing to do with us. T his is often the way we humans look at stories in the Bible. We read them, we tell others about them, we preach about them, we write stories about them but somehow we never seem to connect these