{"id":5203,"date":"2025-06-14T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:23:57","slug":"as-the-prodigal-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/june\/as-the-prodigal-son\/","title":{"rendered":"As the prodigal son"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His anger does not last<\/h3>\n

The thing with God is that he does not stay angry for a long time, especially when the mistakes we make are out of ignorance. He does not hold grudges when we provoke him to anger. The Lord is slow to anger. He patiently works with us with forgiveness (Nm 14:18). The Bible says that His mercies are new every morning (Lam. 3:22-23). The reason God is so patient with us is that he gets us, as the commercial says. He knows that we are weak. As a father knows his child and is patient with him, so is the Lord (Ps 103:13-14). Luke tells us that we have a high priest who sympathizes with us because he knows that we are weak (He 4:15). Our condition of mourning can be changed because we have a father who loves us, as in the story of the prodigal son<\/p>\n

Psalm 30:5<\/p>\n

5 <\/sup>For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.<\/p>\n

In the parable of the prodigal son, we see favor in its fullest. In his family, there is the father, the oldest, but no mention of his mother. The parable tells the story of a family broken apart by the desire to venture into the unknown and experience it. Not content with what the younger son had in his father’s house, he demanded that his father give him the inheritance. The father was traumatized by his younger son’s sudden request, probably saddened and angered, he gave him what he asked. After he spent all his substance and found himself hungry and in need, he returned to himself and went back home (Lk 15:17-20). His new reckless living style was not what he was meant to do. Returning to his father in repentance was the remedy to his situation. So, he said, “I will arise and go to my father”, and went back, not knowing what to expect back at home. <\/p>\n

The father’s anger lasts only for a moment after one of his children messes up. The scriptures say that when the son was on his way back home, while he was still far, the father saw him and ran to him and kissed him. The joy finally came back to the father. The parable tells the story of a backsliding believer returning to the father’s house. It is also about the effects of family restoration on the family as a whole. God cannot deny himself for restoring someone who comes to him with a repented and contrite spirit (Ps 51:17). <\/p>\n

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The Lord<\/span> is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.<\/p>\n

Lamentations 3:22-23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It is of the Lord<\/span>‘s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.<\/span>23 <\/sup>They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalms 103:13-14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/sup>Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord<\/span> pitieth them that fear him.<\/span>14 <\/sup>For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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17 <\/sup>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!<\/span>18 <\/sup>I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, <\/span>19 <\/sup>And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. <\/span>20 <\/sup>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Psalms 51:17<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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