Luke shows the great pleasure God has when one sinner repents and returns to him. Through a series of parables, Jesus shows us the Joy that takes place when the lost are found. When the backslider returns, one who was in the fold and wondered away. The lost coin, those lost inside the church, And then the most famous of all the stories the prodigal son.
While in darkness, a servant to sin and the various lust it powers, my Father saw me. While a great way off, while still in my degraded needful condition, while I was yet a sinner, my Father saw me and He loved me. Before the foundation of the world he called me from darkness into his marvelous light. While I was still waddling in the pig pen of life, he looked beyond my faults and saw my needs. When everyone else could only see the worst in me, He saw the best in me . While I was yet a great way off, my Father saw me, the eyes of mercy looking on his lost son, while I was yet a sinner. When he saw me, my Father had compassion on me, had pity on my fallen condition. My Father ran to me. I was burden down with guilt, sin, shame and fear, I came slowly, but he ran to me with the urgency of salvation. He met me with encouragment, he gave me hope, comfort and peace as he accepted me into his rest. The arms of mercy stretched out to embrace me. He fell on my neck, even though I had just gotten out of the pig pen of life, covered with the stanch of sin and filth, the Father takes me in his arms and falls on my neck.
He lays me in his bosom, The bosom a place of honor, like Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham, The bosom a place of the beloved, As John the beloved, the disciple Jesus loved, laying in Jesus bosom at the last supper.The bosom the place of the blessedness, as Jesus the only begotten of God, rest in the bosom of his Father.Then He kissed me, my sins forgiven, never to be mentioned again. He I am a new creature in Christ. Because he saw me,God gave his only begotten son to die for my sins, because He is a loving Father. Thank God for Jesus
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