Friday June 16, 2023
Luke 15:13
And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together,
journeyed to a far country . . .
Into a far country!
Jesus would show in his parable how far away from God most people live their lives, without knowledge or thought of the love of God.
Perhaps such a person is present in our circle today.
You have many interests. Good and noble interests, which occupy your time and fill your soul. You have much joy, in your work and otherwise. Clean and beautiful joy, which enriches your soul life and ennobles your character. You have been spared, fortunately, the impure and debasing joys which ruined the young man of the parable.
But you who are so keenly interested in everything in life, what attitude do you take toward God and His love?
No doubt you never think of it. Now and then, of course, you hear about it. What effect does it have upon you? Probably it does not move you in the least. Rather, you perhaps smile a little at the thought of these people who are always thinking about God and His love.
Nevertheless, I would have you hear today the unbelievable, the incomprehensible: God loves you, notwithstanding all your sinfulness, all your indifference, all your ingratitude, all your rebelliousness.
Moreover, mine is the privilege of proclaiming to you something even more unbelievable: This love which God has for you will follow you wherever you go in life, no matter whither you flee from the living God.
I would have you know also that there is a day coming when you, too, will need this love. When the famine in the far country will become so great that you will not know what to do with your tortured soul.
God grant that you may awake in the time of grace! Before it is eternally too late.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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