He Is There For Us

Today is another day...and hopefully we are all closer to God today than we were yesterday. This takes constant work on our part, but God knows that we will all slide in one way or another. We will all fall victim to our flesh, but it is what we do after the slide that is important to Him. He wants us to know that He is there for us no matter what, and that He is ready to accept us back into His open arms. My brother was sharing some things that God had shared with him the other day about the Prodigal Son. If you remember he asked his father for his portion of the wealth then he traveled to another country, squandered all his money, became a womanizer, gambled…in modern terminology all he did was party. Until one day he woke up in a pig pen eating out of the trough with the pigs…at this point in time he knew that he had made many serious mistakes. And as ashamed as he was; he knew he had to go home.

When his Father saw him coming the distance, he ran out to meet him, and had servants bring him the finest cloak, and sandals for his feet, the ring that held the family crest and kissed him on the neck. Signifying that his loved his son, and that his son was welcome in his home no matter what he had done…all these things that he did for his son; God wants to do for us.

He knew that he had “sinned against heaven and before his father” (Luke 15:11-32 KJV), but his father still accepted him back…and not just accepted him back, but WITH OPEN ARMS…no matter what we do, or how far away we get away from Him. God wants us to come back to Him…AND when “we” decide to do so, no matter which pig pen we are residing in…He will get the finest cloak for us. And don our feet in sandals and give us our ring with His crest on it AND give us our kiss on our neck, because He wants us to be with Him…no matter what mistakes we make.

The thing that we have to battle is our own perception of what we have done…because in our eyes…our human fleshy eyes we can see ourselves as “not being deserving” of God’s ability to forgive us. As we grow in Christ, and we understand more about His ability to forgive us, we gain strength in Him knowing this. And; I am sure that as we grow, and learn, we will move farther and farther away from making those same mistakes…we will always make mistakes, and in this we learn humility. As humans it is inevitable that we are going to make mistakes of some sort in the eyes of Christ, but we need to continue to come back to Him, because He is our Father waiting with open arms for our return to Him.

So continue to have faith in Him: because He will not let you down…EVER (while men or women will); continue to pick yourself up: because “OUR GOD” has a never ending ability to forgive us no matter what we do (or more importantly – how "WE" feel about what we did); continue to move closer to Him: because the more you do this the more it will become THE natural thing to do, and before you know it; it will be something you do all the time without even thinking about it.

Until next time…

Father God we are all human and we have to strive to be more like you each and every day. As we strive to be more like You…we will continue to ask you to forgive us for our shortcomings. We will continue to pick ourselves up, come back to You knowing that you are OUR GOD, OUR ROCK AND OUR PROVIDER, and only You will be there for us in the end. These things we pray in Jesus’ HOLY name, Amen.