WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU TO COME TO YOUR SENSES?
Jesus told a parable about a father and two sons. The younger one was rebellious and took his portion of his father’s wealth and squandered it in riotous living. When his money had run out, a famine came, and he took a job feeding pigs. He was so hungry that the pig food began to look good to him. It was there that he finally hit bottom and “came to his senses.” So he repented of his sin, returned to his father, and asked for forgiveness. His father not only forgave him, he threw a party to celebrate and restored him as his son.
How many of us are like the younger son, the one that is called the prodigal son? For the word “prodigal” means to spend one’s life and resources recklessly and wastefully. And like the prodigal son, it usually takes losing everything and hitting rock bottom before we finally look up.
But we don’t have to waste our lives. We don’t have to hit bottom to look up. We can look up now. Come to your senses! Give your life to the Lord Jesus and be restored to the Father as His child.
PRAYER: Dear Father, we don’t want to waste the life You have given us. We don’t want to waste Your blessings. Help us to invest our lives for Your glory. Strengthen us to do Your will. Give us a holy sense of urgency to always follow You. In Jesus’ name, amen.