Hey everyone! I have some great news! My mom will be returning to her blog next week, so unfortunately this is my last blog. However, I am thinking about starting my own blog. I haven’t decided yet, but I will make sure my mom keeps you all updated. If I do start one it won’t be until school starts back up again.
This week I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about. I was thinking about just writing about some of the awesome things God has done in my life. Then yesterday I was listening to Klove on the way home from work and “Prodigal” by Sidewalk Prophets came on. Instantly I knew that’s what God wanted me to write about.
This song comes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32. The son of a wealthy man takes his inheritance and squanders it all on partying and worldly things. Then he comes back, hoping he can at least work in his father’s fields. But his father welcomes him home with open arms and throws him a huge feast. That’s how God sees us. He wants nothing more than for all His prodigal sons and daughters to come home and He will welcome us all home with open arms. No matter what you’ve done, all He wants is for you to come home. “Where ever you are, whatever you did, it’s a page in your book but it isn’t the end. Your Father will meet you with arms open wide. This is where your heart belongs. So come running like a prodigal.”
This song seems to be more targeted at an audience that thinks there is too much bad in their past for God to love them, but I think it also has a meaning for believers. There are no lost causes. In 1 Timothy 2:3-4 it says, “This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” God wants everyone to come to know Him, no matter what they’ve done. I see this song as not only a message saying God loves me and wants me no matter what, but also a reminder that there are no lost causes. You never know how much a single prayer or word can change someone. The simplest things can move mountains. So don’t think that the extreme atheist or the most devout of other religions can’t be saved. God wants ALL of His children to come home. Everyone can be saved. So go out and help them get there! Show them the love of God!
No matter what you’ve done or where you’ve come from, God wants you to come running into His arms. It’s our job as believer to help others find their way home too! So, I leave you with this; “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.” Matthew 28:19.
I’m Just the daughter of a small town girl…living in a prodigal world.
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