Take Me To The Father

After hearing a fresh presentation of the Prodigal Son story, I learned that in a Jewish family when the prodigal son left and squandered his money that in order to keep the family intact, it was the older brothers role to seek out and find the younger brother. It was his job to bring the erring brother to the Father. In this story we find the self righteous older brother was not even happy to hear that his younger brother was returned to the family. An interesting insight that this fresh telling of this story is that Jesus is our true older brother and truly He seeks to find and save the lost. This unique picture of Jesus coming to find me inspired me that it is truly through Jesus that I am brought to God the Father. I called on Jesus with a renewed understanding that Jesus will take me to the Father. After this Jesus revealed His love toward me as the work of God's love would be Jesus being my advocate to come to the Father. How can Jesus do this? It is by the love that He showed on the Cross that makes it possible to bring us to the Father. Truly think about His love, think about His mercy, think about His love that will see us through. Another insight in coming to Jesus that I am both like the sinning prodigal son and also the self righteous older brother. Truly in this story God the Father wants both to come into a loving family relationship with Him.