Love Of The Father

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ruthless anticipation of the Father, and the relentless affection of the Father. I must warn you that reading this may put in danger the view you have of God and his relationship with mankind. More than anything I hope to catch a glimpse of the love of Christ.
More than that I hope that my understanding of God will grow into a deeper love for the grace and the mercy that He has shown me. “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this knowledge that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
First, lets look at the exegesis of these verses in Luke 15:11-24 and see what it has to say.
“Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons.”
Immediately our Lord begins to put the background on the canvas. This verse already begins to state the glorious home with the father, before things began to take a turn for the worst. In the home there’s the “certain man,” and that is God the Father. And this father had two sons. One of these boys is called the elder and the other is called the younger.
“The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.””
Here is this lovely home in which there is everything that this son could want—love, joy, fellowship, comforts—this younger boy does a very strange thing. He says, “I’m tired of the discipline. I don’t like it here. I’d like to stretch my wings. I’ve been looking over the pasture, and the grass over in the field looks to me like it’s a lot greener.” And I don’t know why that’s true, but to you and me the gra...