Come Back

I was just watching "The Waltons" on t.v. and became inspired to write. There was a man on the show who walked with a limp and had a cane. I saw his wife looking through the window from inside of the broken down old house they lived in. John Boy was talking to the man about buying a car that the man no longer used. The man was kind of a hard man who I later found out lost his son. He and John Boy agreed to a price, which was John Boy working on the house and cleaning things up. After John Boy left their place and headed home, the man went inside the garage where he kept the beautiful car and began to shine it up with a cloth. He paused for moment as he started remembering old conversations with his son and wife.

It was at that point that I became inspired to write about the thoughts going through my head. I thought about how it must have killed the man to not have his son around any longer. It must have hurt him terribly to have John Boy coming to his home asking to buy the car that carried so many memories of his own son. The man seemed to have allowed the fact that his son was gone to eat him up inside and it caused him to be bitter toward the world.

I was thinking. How hurt is God when He loses one of His sons or daughters? We are His pride and joy and He showers us with gifts beyond anything we can imagine. He provides jobs, cars, homes, food, water, peace, joy, etc., etc., etc. Some of His sons and daughters take advantage of this tremendous love and decide they are going to leave and go out on their own. They think they know what is best for them and that they don't need God. How do we get to that point? How on earth can we actually begin to believe that we don't need Him? Without Him we are nothing and we will accomplish nothing worthwhile unless we are in Him and He is in us. Without Him, living becomes futile.

Have you noticed that no matter where you go, you always seem to end up right back at Jesus' feet? Nothing can separate us from the love of God! We can run and run and run from Him but He never gives up on us. He's always watching and looking for us to come back. Remember the prodigal son? Remember how the father was watching for his son and saw him coming from far away? Oh how wonderful he felt when he saw his son returning!!! The biggest party was thrown and the best food was prepared and the best clothes were put on the son who had now returned to the father!

Are you running? Do you think you'll ever come back? Maybe you've been gone so long that you've forgotten where home is. If this is the case, you have a big brother named Jesus and He knows the way home. He can show you and walk with you. It's always easier to go back to the place you left if you don't have to do it alone. There's an awful lot of family waiting there for you. Oh what a wonderful, wonderful day.....day that you'll never forget! God loves you and He's waiting for you to come home.