God’s Love is Personal

From the beginning, we see that God’s relationship with us is deeply personal. He is our Father in heaven, and we are His sons and daughters. This parable illustrates the closeness of that relationship through a conversation between a father and his son.

¹¹ Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. ¹²And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. ¹³ And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

The younger son decides to take his inheritance and leave. Notice how the father does not argue or resist—he simply allows the son to make his own choices, even knowing the potential consequences. The son chooses to leave his father’s home and, in a distant country, squanders his inheritance through reckless living.

After losing everything, the son hits rock bottom. Out of desperation, he decides to return home. Yet even in his despair, he remembers his father’s love. Despite his mistakes, he believes there is a chance his father will understand and allow him to work as a servant in the household.

On his journey back, something remarkable happens:

²⁰ “And he arose and came to his father. 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.

This moment shows the depth of the father’s love and forgiveness. God, like the father in the parable, is always waiting for us to return to Him. As His children, made in His image, we are deeply loved, and He longs to restore the relationship we may have broken.

The parable reflects the story of humanity. Adam and Eve were created in God’s image, living in close relationship with Him. However, when they chose to seek the knowledge of good and evil, they broke that connection. Similarly, the younger son had a close relationship with his father while he remained in the household. Once he left, that bond was severed, and life became a struggle.

Just as the father in the parable eagerly awaited the return of his son, God waits for us to come back to Him, ready to restore what has been lost. This story is not just about forgiveness but also about the enduring, unchanging love of God's love for us.

So often, we have our own preconceived ideas about God's love for us and how close He wants to be with us. When we feel that God is far away from us, we should read this parable and realize that it is us who are far from God, while He is much closer than we can even imagine. The Holy Spirit lives in us—God inside us—as soon as we accept Jesus into our lives.

The Holy Spirit helps us to speak to God the Father. Jesus made this possible by shedding His blood. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand the Word—the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit will always point to Jesus and reveal the truth based on God’s Word given to us in the Bible. Always ask the Holy Spirit to help and guide you; He is called the Helper. Don’t rely on others, the internet, or especially AI.

You have God’s Holy Spirit within you to tell you the truth.
Ask Him and listen to Him.

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Our Father's Love for us...

Luke 15:11-32 (KJV)

11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father"s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

20 And 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.

21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.