After reading Luke 15:2 that "the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!'" I was thinking, "Duh, He lets you hang around, too." I am a long way from truly understanding the reason, but the story recounted by Julie Ackerman Link in today's ODB got me thinking of the above verse from later in the chapter. In His wisdom, God desires man to choose to partake with Him. While we know that God "wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth," (1 Timothy 2:4) His patience in letting us "come to our senses" is mind-boggling. Just as Julie didn't know she needed found, so many have no idea, How many missing family members is our Father counting on us to find?When he came to his senses, ... he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. (Luke 15:17, 20)
But how can they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:14)Andy Jentes
All scripture quotations from Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
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