A thought by Max Lucado from his book, Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours (p. 90). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
Too many times we visualize God sitting down with his back to us, not really caring. But the key is not where he is turned but where we are turned.
Max says, “When his patriarchs trusted, God blessed. When Peter preached or Paul wrote or Thomas believed, God smiled. But he never ran.
“That verb was reserved for the story of the Prodigal Son. ‘But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him’ (Luke 15:20 nkjv).
“God runs when he sees the son coming home from the pig trough. When the addict steps out of the alley. When the teen walks away from the party. When the ladder-climbing executive pushes back from the desk, the spiritist turns from idols, the materialist from stuff, the atheist from disbelief, and the elitist from self-promotion…”
Max goes on, “When prodigals trudge up the path, God can’t sit still. Heaven’s throne room echoes with the sound of slapping sandals and pounding feet and angels watch in silence as God embraces his child.
Max then says, “You turn toward God, and he runs toward you.”
Do you feel he has left you, that he doesn’t care, that he doesn’t even know where you are? Then maybe you need to turn toward him, reach out to him and then you will see what he will do toward you. Would you turn toward him today?
Yes, yes!
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