After spending some time with my family last week on vacation from the usual activities of my life, I think it is time to think about where I'm at in my spiritual journey. For the last month or so, I've been looking intently at the story of the Prodigal Son. I can identify with the Prodigal Son. Not so much in that I totally ran away from God and turned my back on Him to squander my money on wild living, I haven't done those things. But I can identify with him in that I have walked away from what I knew to be true about God. I have had my relationship with Him and believed that He exist, but that's about it. Until now...
Now I am headed back home. In the same way that the Prodigal Son came to his father with the desire to just be a servant in his father's household because of his mistakes, I have the desire to come to God with an attitude of "just being a servant." It seems that I have been neglecting my relationship with Him for so long, that I don't deserve to come back to Him as I used to be. Then again, I guess none of us do.
The thing where the Prodigal Son story differs then my own is that the father ran out to meet the son. I don't really want God to run to meet me. I want to come to Him on my own terms and in my own time. Is that wrong? I'm not sure which one is more characteristic of God. I'm thinking the way the father reacted is more telling of how God receives those who come back to Him since it was Jesus who told the story to begin with. But I don't know. I need some insight on this one.
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I want to come to Him on my own terms and in my own time. Is that wrong?
what if it is...what if He's running to you right now?
I imagine you are more like the prodigal than you know....imagine wanting to go home and eat pig slop....and seeing you dad fix the fatted calf....
it's all so freakin out of our understanding.....
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