The Prodigal Sonsنموونە

Day 5 Devotional:

Returning Home to the Father

I hope you can see how, from these three S’s in Luke 15, Christ helps us to understand the gospel, He shows us why we all need the gospel, and He explains how we can personalise the gospel in our lives.

I don’t know which of the two groups you belong to as you read this, but whatever group you belong to, the Lord is calling you back home today through your repentance and faith in what Christ did for you on the cross. That is the only way back home to the heavenly Father. It can never be based on your good works and your self-righteous religiosity.

Perhaps you feel like the younger brother who has squandered his life in wild living, and nothing is going right in your life. Or perhaps you feel like the older brother thinking that God owes you something for all your goodness and religiosity.

There are three essential steps involved in accepting God’s offer of salvation to you today.

First, you should allow the Holy Spirit to show you that, because you too are a descendant of Adam, you are a sinner in need of God’s salvation offered to you in the gospel.

Second, you should thank God that, instead of punishing you for your sins, He sent Jesus Christ to take upon Himself on the cross the punishment due to us for your sins, and you ask Him to forgive you because of Christ’s work on the cross on your behalf.

Third, you ask the Lord to fill you with His Holy Spirit so that you can now live a life that pleases God. Sorry. Thank you. Please.

This is how you can personalise the gospel in your life today and begin to live the life of a prodigal son or daughter who has returned home to his or her heavenly Father.

On my website, for which the link is displayed with this Plan, you can read and hear my own personal testimony of how I, like the two lost sons in this passage, returned home to the Father through my repentance.