Pure Glory

by Hazel Straub

Feeling discouraged? Have you made mistakes and turned away from God? It does not matter how many times you fail, your Heavenly Father is always watching for your return to him. When you decide to return home, he opens his arms wide to love and celebrate you. Although you may have wasted your abilities and potential, he welcomes you without reproach and shows compassion, mercy and grace.

Jesus told a parable about a father with two sons (Luke 11:15-32). The younger one asked for his inheritance, received it and wasted all the things he was given in a distant land. He then experienced hunger and became a beggar. He decided to return home and ask his father to make him an employee. His father saw him, interrupted the rehearsed sorrowful speech of the younger son and celebrated his return home, with a feast and honored him as his son. The older brother had worked in the fields all day allowed offense and bitterness to lodge in his heart, due to the homecoming feast thrown for his younger brother. He was angry and wouldn’t join in the celebration because he was jealous of how the father treated the younger brother. Although his father reassured the older brother of his love, this brother refused to celebrate.

God our father, celebrates us returning to him. We all need to check our hearts, no matter, if we are the younger or older brother. When we return to our God our father in repentance, he celebrates and welcomes us. No matter what you have done in sin, he says, “Welcome Home!” He gives you a fresh start!

“The father said, ‘My son, you are always with me by my side. Everything I have is yours to enjoy. It’s only right to celebrate like this and be overjoyed, because this brother of yours was once dead and gone, but now he is alive and back with us again. He was lost but now he is found!’”(Luke 15:31-32 TPT)

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