MERCYFULL GOD  
Luke 15:11-32

Despite our inconsistency, God in His goodness and mercy continues to be consistent in mercy and goodness to all of His children. He is a merciful God and very rich in glory by Christ Jesus. God has never run out of mercy. His children, however, make the choice of running out of His mercy. Where are you in the Lord? Can you sincerely assess where you are by simply putting down on a paper where and what you have been doing? Just like the prodigal son, many are taking the blessings of God and running to their own way of life. Many have been blessed in ways that cannot be explained because it was the move of God’s hand of favor, yet they have turned away from Him by forgetting the root of their blessing. Does that sound like you? Luke 15:11-13, “Then He said: ‘A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.’” Have you been blessed by God and consciously or unconsciously taken yourself far away from the place of worshiping God? The prodigal son, blessed by the father’s wealth, decided to move to a far country. It does not matter how far you have gone from God or how far you have been going from Him all that you do will catch up with you. Luke 15:14-15, “But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.” All the inherited blessings of the prodigal son were now gone. He was reduced where God had no plan for Him to be reduced. He was shattered when he should have been gathering before the Lord. When there is a failure not to get back to Him, it will become a wasted life. The move of the prodigal son made him to live just like the animal that he was caring for. The prodigal son was no longer himself because blessings had taken him far from God. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘how many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!’” (Luke 15:17) God will cause you to come back to yourself just like the prodigal son. The Master, Jesus, decided and came thousands of years ago to give us more abundantly so why take away from Him redundantly? The prodigal son, having come to himself, settled in his heart and stated his repentance. He went back to his father, “…But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and he had compassion…” (Luke 15:20) God is waiting on your return; maintain a focus on the One who blesses and not the blessing.