Verse 20
“And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his
father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”
Instead of maintaining his rightful dignity and honor as
an oriental patriarch, however, he abandoned social propriety and ran out to
meet his son while he was still far away.”
- David K. Bernard
Our God is a desperate God,
He is a God that ridicules and makes a fool of Himself by begging.
He is a God that ridicules and makes a fool of Himself by begging.
Desperate because He is doing everything in His power to
bring us back to His Harmony.
And yet we still reject Him in exchange for suffering.
He is desperately crying out to us with all His might;
so loudly it even killed Him at the cross;
so loud the fires of hell burned inside His throat.
He does so because He is not willing to lose us to that
hell fire.
He does so because He knows about the impending pain we
will go through; it is already hurting Him, He already sees it coming, He is
already experiencing it for us, and He is warning us.
He does so because He is willing to set Himself on
hellfire to get our attention,
if it means we will be saved.
He is not just as desperate as I am from my own
suffering, He is even more desperate, because He is even sympathetic for the
suffering that I have numbed from and have tucked away.
He is resorting to ridicule Himself, not because He is
foolish, but because we have already crossed those lines ourselves. What kind of father would be afraid to get a
little mud on his shoes to save his child out of the pile of dung that is
pinning him down?
He ridicules Himself; it reflects how wrecked our
situation really is.
Because if a reasonable God who knows everything is
acting like this about us…
What must He know?
And if an omnipotent God is doing all He can do for us…
What is there left to do?
Written on August 26, 2012
Written on August 26, 2012
