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The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
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“In this Story of the Two Lost Sons, the heart of the father is his sons. The heart of God is us. Here, we meet a God who loves deeply, pursues relentlessly, longs for relationship, erases the debt of wrongs, runs to meet us in the field, and invites us to the table—at the Father’s cost. Jesus loves so greatly that he did go through the crucifixion. Jesus didn’t die on the cross to give us a second chance to get things right. Jesus did it because he knew we never would.
This is not the father you expected.
Maybe this parable should be called The Story of the Father Who Restores at His Cost.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
This is not the father you expected.
Maybe this parable should be called The Story of the Father Who Restores at His Cost.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“God is not the patriarch who stays home, doesn’t move, and expects his children to come to him, apologize for their bad behavior, beg for forgiveness, and promise to do better.
It’s the opposite.
He leaves the house, ignores his dignity by running toward them, pays no heed to apologies or smells and promises of change, and starts the party. God is always on the giving side, trying to repair the relationship.
God is a God who always says let’s start here.
You don’t have to get better for God. God doesn’t try to find you when you are good enough. No. God says, ‘You’re here—and I’ll meet you right where you are. From there, we’ll grow together.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
It’s the opposite.
He leaves the house, ignores his dignity by running toward them, pays no heed to apologies or smells and promises of change, and starts the party. God is always on the giving side, trying to repair the relationship.
God is a God who always says let’s start here.
You don’t have to get better for God. God doesn’t try to find you when you are good enough. No. God says, ‘You’re here—and I’ll meet you right where you are. From there, we’ll grow together.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“A repentant spirit is part of belonging to God but it always happens after God makes the first move towards us. This is God’s faithful pursuit of us.
Before the son offers his transaction, the father speaks first, cleans him up and dresses him in finery, and throws a party. The robe and ring give the message the son didn’t believe--you’re still my son. Not a word is spoken about the lost money, the bad choices, or the shame. The father doesn’t seem to care. All he cares about is his son. The father is all about restoring relationships. God is on the giving side.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
Before the son offers his transaction, the father speaks first, cleans him up and dresses him in finery, and throws a party. The robe and ring give the message the son didn’t believe--you’re still my son. Not a word is spoken about the lost money, the bad choices, or the shame. The father doesn’t seem to care. All he cares about is his son. The father is all about restoring relationships. God is on the giving side.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“Was the son recognizable in the condition he was in? How far down the road was he before he was recognized? Did the son return smelling of pig sty? Was he embraced and kissed smelling like pig?
A your worst, God runs to you, embraces you, kisses you. You are worthy of the pursuit even if you are covered in pig crap.
We so often use the excuse, I’ll turn to God after I clean up. God doesn’t want to wait for that. He just wants you to turn.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
A your worst, God runs to you, embraces you, kisses you. You are worthy of the pursuit even if you are covered in pig crap.
We so often use the excuse, I’ll turn to God after I clean up. God doesn’t want to wait for that. He just wants you to turn.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“The difference between grace and love is: ‘Love is more a yearning and desperation of God to have us around. Grace is because of this desperation he allows us to stay around.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“Grace is God refusing to abandon you and continuing to pursue you.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“Grace is not karma.
“With grace you realize you are not the most intelligent creature in the universe.
Grace is God’s unearned, undeserved love and mercy, given freely to humanity despite sin. Not based on human effort but on God’s kindness—especially seen in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for salvation. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Grace is out of our control because God has designed for him to do the work to remove our sins from us.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“With grace you realize you are not the most intelligent creature in the universe.
Grace is God’s unearned, undeserved love and mercy, given freely to humanity despite sin. Not based on human effort but on God’s kindness—especially seen in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for salvation. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Grace is out of our control because God has designed for him to do the work to remove our sins from us.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“Grace is a hard word to understand. We say it is by grace we are saved, but then we continue to strive to earn God’s love.
We are drawn more to karma because we do understand it. Karma is based on the principle of cause and effect—what you do, good or bad, determines what you receive in return, either in this life or future lives as in reincarnation. Karma focuses on personal responsibility and justice, where actions have consequences. Karma is you get what you deserve.
This is all transactional. You have some control in this. You also get trapped in the wondering of when you are good enough.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
We are drawn more to karma because we do understand it. Karma is based on the principle of cause and effect—what you do, good or bad, determines what you receive in return, either in this life or future lives as in reincarnation. Karma focuses on personal responsibility and justice, where actions have consequences. Karma is you get what you deserve.
This is all transactional. You have some control in this. You also get trapped in the wondering of when you are good enough.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“The heart of the father is to bring his children home. As fathers and mothers feel, God would prefer to protect you from the dangers of your choices. As a suffering mom, I would prefer to keep you home, prevent you from leaving, prevent you from falling into that hole so you will not be hurt. But the father’s love is too great to do any of that.
Love cannot force, constrain, push, or pull. Love is not coerced. Love offers the freedom to reject that love or to love in return. God, our Creator, has chosen to be, first and foremost, a father. As a father, he wants his children to be free--free to love and free to lose everything.
The father’s heart knows all the pain that will come from that choice, but this love renders him unwilling to take our freedom away. He knows our deceitful tongues and disloyal hearts but he cannot make us love him without losing his true fatherhood.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
Love cannot force, constrain, push, or pull. Love is not coerced. Love offers the freedom to reject that love or to love in return. God, our Creator, has chosen to be, first and foremost, a father. As a father, he wants his children to be free--free to love and free to lose everything.
The father’s heart knows all the pain that will come from that choice, but this love renders him unwilling to take our freedom away. He knows our deceitful tongues and disloyal hearts but he cannot make us love him without losing his true fatherhood.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“Grace isn’t transactional. It can't be earned, predicted, or managed.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“If you want to sin, God will allow you to sin, even if you are destroyed. God hopes the road to destruction will bring you back because he is always pursuing you. He is always wooing you.
Who bears the cost of this? The father and the older son. God and the people who love you.
Even if we want something that is bad for us, God allows it. Grace allows for this.
“Coercion doesn’t produce love. Grace does.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
Who bears the cost of this? The father and the older son. God and the people who love you.
Even if we want something that is bad for us, God allows it. Grace allows for this.
“Coercion doesn’t produce love. Grace does.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
“Maybe the issues of the gospel message aren’t debt, shame, penalties, or violations of the law. Maybe the issues of the gospel message are being restored to relationship.”
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
― The Story of Two Lost Sons: Finding Grace and Restoration Through God’s Lavish Love
