In past studies we have seen that the father in this parable was on the lookout for his wayward son. When he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. Why would He do this? Why did the father in the Parable act this way when he probably had come to know something about his son misspending his money and acting so sinfully in the far country? Well, I think that we need to understand that The Lord Jesus is picturing for us, here in this Parable, God's love. Not only for repentant sinners, but His love for unworthy sinners. When the Prodigal Son returned, the first thing that he said to his father was that he was unworthy to be called his son. This is what we want to think about at this time – God's love and our unworthiness of being shown this love.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
