We all have known backsliders (prodigal sons) in our Christian lives. Those that once knew Him and then turned back to the world. There is a trick of the enemy played on the prodigal telling him it is a long way home, when in reality it is but a short distance. Something inside of us (the elder brother/our flesh) says coming back to God could not be that easy, but a long and drawn out process of reaping what we have sown. That is a lie. Grace is freely offered to the prodigal. If they will but repent the Father is there watching waiting and hoping for the change of heart. It is not a long way home, because God never changes. He has not moved and does not want to pay us back for the evil we have done apart from Him. He is watching and waiting for our return long before we start home! He will restore to us all the wasted years, but we have to come to ourselves (spiritual awaking) and return. That is the grace of God and the wrath of man compared in a simple story.
Be Blessed from a recovering Pharisee,
Billy and Jan Wells
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