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How did I get here?

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The young man took a long look at his life.

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He was penniless, homeless, filthy, and starving.

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You would never know that he had once lived under the loving care of his wealthy father.

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But he had left home, cut off his relationship with his father, squandered his inheritance

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on a life of sin, and ended up in this pitiful state.

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He finally came to his senses, and a deep feeling welled up in him:

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I need to go back to my father.

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But he was so ashamed.

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After all he had done, he wondered whether his father would even want him as a son anymore.

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In desperation, he decided he would return home and ask to be a servant.

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He was unaware of the depth of his father's love.

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Little did he know that his father had been longing for him,

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waiting and watching for the day he would return.

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As the young man made his way home, his father spotted him,

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even when he was still a long way off,

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and ran to him, embraced him, and kissed him affectionately.

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Filthy and ragged, the repentant young man confessed to his father his sinful life,

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telling him that he was no longer worthy to be his  son.

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But his father responded by first clothing him with the best robe

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and then sacrificing the fattened calf to feed him.

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With rejoicing, he called for a feast for all to celebrate the return of his son,

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whom he declared had been dead and now lived again,

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who had been lost and was now found.

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Like the son in this parable, each of us will eventually come to the realization

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that we are lost and need to be found by God, our real Father.

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We may feel too ashamed to come to God.

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But the Bible reveals His unchanging and infinite love for us.

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He longs for every prodigal to come back to Himself.

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In God's eyes, to be lost is actually to be dead in sins,

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and to be found is to be saved and made alive in Christ.

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If we return to God and repent of our sins, we will be cleansed

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and Christ will cover us like a robe of righteousness.

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Not only so, like the fattened calf, Christ who was sacrificed for us

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will also fill and satisfy us inwardly,

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becoming a rich feast for us to enjoy as sons in the household of our Father God.

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Our loving and forgiving Father is waiting for us to come to Him.

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We can do this by praying this simple prayer:

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"Dear Father, I'm lost and need to be found!

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I am dead in my sins!

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Come into my spirit and make me alive in Christ as a son of God!

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Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for me so that You could cleanse me, cover me,

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satisfy my hunger, and qualify me to feast with the Father in His house.

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Amen."