Did you read Luke 15, to find out about this wonderful father in the story of the Prodigal Son?
Yesterday we ended at the point were the younger son had just returned from his escapades...and Daddy was so glad to see his son. Do you remember what the father did? He said to his servant, bring me the best robe, put a ring on his finger, sandals on his feet and kill the fatted calf!
And what was the first thing the son did? He apologized to his father, he told his father I am not fit to be called your son, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight....I am not worthy.
Every Easter when we have the Easter celebrations at church, the one thing that I am always very much aware of, is the fact that we as a people, myself especially, are so completely unworthy of the amazing grace that our Father has extended to us. Wow. Isn't God wonderful? Okay I have digressed again....
So the father has dressed his youngest son and now the older son is on the scene...and he is feeling kind of like he has been slighted...he has feelings, I am sure of jealousy, distrust, and perhaps even disgust.
Hey he thinks...I have been here all along, I have worked hard, and you, father, have never killed the fatted calf for me....what is up with that? He wasn't a happy camper...he was basing his relationship with his father on his little brothers messing up.
Instead he should have based his relationship with his father on the love that he had with his father and the love he received from his father. His brother messed up, but that wasn't any part of the older brothers plight. His father still loved him.
How may times do we base our success on other peoples failures? Does this ever happen in our families? Or where you work? I can guarantee that it does! I can look at the families that I am familiar with and I can see where it does and were it isn't happening.
The key is to rear your family in such away that this doesn't happen. Make sure that your children are very secure in themselves and in their relationships with both mom and dad and especially with their heavenly Daddy, and in order to do this make sure you are a good and godly model for children to mimic.
Well it is time to find someone to bless and to take a quick picture out my front door. So here you go and have a wonderful and blessed day!
Yesterday we ended at the point were the younger son had just returned from his escapades...and Daddy was so glad to see his son. Do you remember what the father did? He said to his servant, bring me the best robe, put a ring on his finger, sandals on his feet and kill the fatted calf!
And what was the first thing the son did? He apologized to his father, he told his father I am not fit to be called your son, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight....I am not worthy.
Every Easter when we have the Easter celebrations at church, the one thing that I am always very much aware of, is the fact that we as a people, myself especially, are so completely unworthy of the amazing grace that our Father has extended to us. Wow. Isn't God wonderful? Okay I have digressed again....
So the father has dressed his youngest son and now the older son is on the scene...and he is feeling kind of like he has been slighted...he has feelings, I am sure of jealousy, distrust, and perhaps even disgust.
Hey he thinks...I have been here all along, I have worked hard, and you, father, have never killed the fatted calf for me....what is up with that? He wasn't a happy camper...he was basing his relationship with his father on his little brothers messing up.
Instead he should have based his relationship with his father on the love that he had with his father and the love he received from his father. His brother messed up, but that wasn't any part of the older brothers plight. His father still loved him.
How may times do we base our success on other peoples failures? Does this ever happen in our families? Or where you work? I can guarantee that it does! I can look at the families that I am familiar with and I can see where it does and were it isn't happening.
The key is to rear your family in such away that this doesn't happen. Make sure that your children are very secure in themselves and in their relationships with both mom and dad and especially with their heavenly Daddy, and in order to do this make sure you are a good and godly model for children to mimic.
Well it is time to find someone to bless and to take a quick picture out my front door. So here you go and have a wonderful and blessed day!
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| Out the front door at 6:30AM on Wednesday march 6, 2013 |
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