Come HOME

Ever a time in your life when you've done things you wish you didn't do? Times when you've made decisions you wish you could take back? Or maybe you chose to live a certain way you knew was wrong?

I think we've all had times when we've struggled with sin in our lives. In Romans, Paul talks about the struggle of "not understanding what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." Many of us live a life of sin we don't want! Sin has crept in & taken over our lives & now we struggle with living for sin or living for the Lord. Life has become confusing & sin has taken over our lives, leaving us in a broken & lost state of doing what we don't want to do.

But the promise of freedom is there. In Luke, Jesus tells us the story of the prodigal son. The son who went out, stopped living for the father, & began to live a life of sin. A life consumed of living for himself & for the world. So much so that he lost all his money & was contemplating eating pig scraps. He lost everything because of sin. His money. His dignity. His family. His life. He was lost.

But he went home & the father ran out to greet him. For the son was lost, but now found. He was dead, but now alive.

How much more Jesus does for us! We lose ourselves in sin & get lost, when Jesus is only waiting for us to come home. Waiting with open arms for his children to return.

Romans 7:24-25 tells us this: "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Paul & the son both recognized their lost state. That they couldn't fix themselves. They couldn't SAVE themselves. And they recognizes there was ONLY ONE who could - Jesus.

Jesus is the only thing to save you. We get lost in sin sometimes. But Jesus will save you. He's waiting.

Come home.

JV