The Triune God and the Lost World
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. (Luke 15:20 NIV)
Then Jesus told them of the man who had two sons. The one we would call, in our day, a delinquent. I have never understood why the father gave him his share of the estate when he asked for it. But the father did, and the son set out and soon had squandered all the money. Forsaken by his false friends, he had to feed pigs in their stinking pen to earn something to eat. Finally he said to himself, "What a fool I am! I will return home and be a servant to my father. At least I will have food."
We all know the rest of the story. "I am unworthy!" the boy confessed to his father. But his father forgave him and dressed him in new garments. He threw a great feast and, amid much rejoicing, restored the boy to his place in the family.
I read and studied those three stores for a long while without being sure I knew what Jesus meant to convey by them. I checked out the commentaries and the reference books; still I was not sure of the meaning. So I sought God alone in earnest prayer to find out what He was trying to say to us as a lost and alienated race. I share with you what the Spirit of God taught me.
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Jesus was trying to make plain the searching, seeking, loving ministries of the Trinity—the Godhead. That lost boy was the lost world. That lost sheep was the lost world. That lost piece of silver was the lost world.
Prayer
O God, how You welcome the lost who come home to You!
Thought
God seeks the lost. Do we? Our tendency is to write them off as those who have chosen their destiny direction. But isn't it the person who is lost and admits it the one who is sought, rather than the one who is lost but considers him or herself never to have wandered?
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