Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight

 Good morning. Back to the Prodigal: “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.” That’s strange. Wasn’t the sin against his father? Remember what David said, “Against You and You alone have I sinned.” And this was after not only Bathsheba, but also being responsible for her husband being killed. I wonder if he told her what he had done? Back to the Prodigal: his father never batted an eye. He told the servants to bring out the best suit - I mean the best robe, etc. They killed the fattened calf ( can anyone say Kobe beef?). They had the biggest block party ever seen! The older son had been working in the hot sun all day. He hears the celebration and wants to know what is going on. The servants tell him, and he gets very angry and pouty. He refuses to come celebrate. His father comes out to get him to come to the celebration. I never neglected a command of yours, and yet you never even gave me a young goat much less a fattened calf for me to celebrate with my friends. (in fact instead of calling him my brother, he calls him your son.) You have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found. Remember that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 who need no repentance. I can still remember coming home from church one Sunday and my father, who never commented on a sermon, saying that that was the first sermon he had ever heard in which the older son was criticized. Father thank You that we always do Your will. You love us with a love incomprehensible.

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