The lost son

Luke 15:31-32 (NKJ)

"And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me,

and all that I have is yours.

32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad,

for your brother was dead and is alive again,

and was lost and is found.

Taste and see that your God is good.

Child of God, who is man to decide who is worthy of the love of the Father?

Who is man to say, he is lost and without hope. Have I not tried long enough

and yet he will not hear, and he will not see?

Know always little children that I am good.

It is always the will of the Father to save those who are lost. Not one is without hope.

Is it not for this very reason the Son came as a light into this dark world?

Yet He was not received; He was indeed despised by man.

The very men which He came to save, they would not receive Him.

Despised by the darkness within their hearts. Yet He did not turn from them.

When the lost despise you and reject your message,

did they not reject the Son of man first?

So then how can it be that man would feel more worthy of love than the Son Himself?

Was man not created to follow Him, to walk as He walked.

Yet He Himself came to serve not to be served. As a King He became a servant.

Yet man esteems himself and feels offence at rejection.

Forget not the lost, little children for it is for these the Messiah came.

He came for the sick and not for the healthy.

Bring them into the fold. Celebrate as they find their way home to the Father.

Do not judge with your eye, and decide with your heart, enough.

Not one who is lost cannot be saved, for with God all things are possible.

You too once walked in darkness, without a light.

How will they see? Show them the way. Show them in love.

Show them the light within you.

Trust that I who have started a good work within them will finish it.

It is the work of My children, those who love Me,

those who walk in my light to plant good seeds, and trust for a good harvest.

I will do the work in their hearts.

I wait for each to come home. For each one who walks in blindness to see My light.

I do not see the filthy rags, the wages of sin. I wash them clean; I redeem them.

I set the fatted calf before them and celebrate their return.

For each one I love, for each one the same price was paid.

Man cannot see with his eye the works within the heart.

When you plant a seed in fertile ground you do not dig it up to see if it grows.

You trust the root has taken, and the harvest will come.

So too is the seed of the word of truth within the heart,

I will tend the seed and watch it grow.

Place them who are lost in My hands, prepare the soil,

plant the seed of truth and trust in your Father.

I will shine My light upon them.

By My hand I will raise them up.

Come all of you who are heavy laden, and I your God will give you rest.

Bring your weary bones before your Father and I will make them light.

Matt 9:37-38 (NKJ)

Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful,

but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest

to send out laborers into His harvest."

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