I’ve Made too Many Mistakes

I’ve Made too Many Mistakes We’re all prone to making mistakes. Sometimes this looks like a lapse of judgment for a moment, or it could be years of looking to things other than God for fulfillment. Whatever mistakes look like for you, it can be difficult to turn back toward God. Why would he want you? But God doesn’t think like that. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the father represents God, and the younger son is those of us who turn away from God. When the son decides to return home, despite all of the mistakes that he made, the father sees him from a distance and runs to meet him, hugging and kissing him. The father was so excited to see that his son was returning; nothing else mattered. And because our past is wiped away with the blood of Jesus, God meets us with the same excitement. We don’t have to worry about what God will say when we return; he just wants us to come back home.