Tag: prodigal son

Luke 15:17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!’ “

This verse comes from the Parable of the prodigal son…a young man,  who after squandering his portion of his inheritance, found himself starving to death in the middle of a pigsty.  It was in those deplorable  conditions, that he finally came to himself…recovering his right mind, and realizing just how far he had wandered away.  Repentance is a change of mind…leading to a change of heart…which leads to a change of our actions.  Unfortunately for many of us,  Godly sorrow is only attained when we find ourselves in the middle of the pigsties of life.

Luke 15:24 ” For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found…”

If you think about it…we’re all like the prodigal son.  We were all spiritually dead – separated from God the Father, with no hope of eternal life…when we were  made live again,  by the blood of Jesus Christ.  For we all had wandered away from our Heavenly Father,  just like the prodigal son…and just like the prodigal son, when we had come to our senses in the middle of that pig pen –  we realized we couldn’t make it on our own.  That’s when we returned.  We returned to a loving Father with outstretched arms, rushing to meet us and draw us to Him.