Broken Bread
Daily Devotions from the Daily Light
by Evan Hopkins
June 11
He arose, and came to his father, But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.--Luke 15:20
Having come to himself. the prodigal no longer wastes his time in vain regrets, but acts at once on the resolution to which he had come. "He arose, and came to his father," This is the story of every true conversion. Many are convicted who are not converted. Paul tells us how the Thessalonian converts "turned to God from idols." There is not only to be a turning FROM the evil, but a turning TO God. So the prodigal came to his father. No doubt he thought the journey home would be as long as the journey into the far country. But it was not so. The Father always meets the soul that sincerely seeks Him. Even when we are a great way off, the Father sees us, and knows all about us. The parable gives us a picture of divine reconciliation. It is our blessed Lord's own picture. We may rely, then, upon its being a true and faithful representation of what actually takes place when the soul in contrition and penitence comes to the feet of Jesus. The whole parable sets forth the joy that there is on God's side over every sinner that repents.