Saturday November 07th, 2020
Memorize: Luke 15:10
« In the same way, it’s a happy time for the angels of God when one sinner decides to change. »
Read: Luke 15:11-24
One day, some tax collectors and ‘sinners’ came to listen to Jesus. The Pharisees and teachers of the Law started complaining, “This man [Jesus] welcomes dishonest crooks and even eats with them.”
Then Jesus told them this story to show how much God loves sinners. “There was once a man who had two sons. The younger son said to his father, ‘Give me my share of the inheritance now.’ So the father sold a part of his property and gave the money to his son.
The son left home and went to a country far away where he wasted all his money. Then a famine spread across the country and he was left with absolutely nothing. So he went to work on a farm where he looked after smelly pigs. He was so hungry that even the pigs’ food started to look tasty.
At last the son came to his senses and said, ‘I will get up and return to my father.’ While he was still a long way from home, his father saw him and ran out to meet him. The father hugged his son and welcomed him home. Then he held a big party to celebrate because his son had come back.”
Does God’s love for us ever change?
When we have sinned and gone our own way, it may not feel as if God loves us because our guilt and shame makes us feel far from Him. The son who left home could not feel his father’s love while he was far away, but that didn’t mean that his father had stopped loving him. The son only felt his father’s love the day he returned home and was hugged.
God’s love for us will never change, even when we rebel and go our own way. He is overjoyed when we come back to Him, no matter how far we have gone or what we have done.
Study questions
1 – In your own words, explain in details today’s memory verse
2 – Compose a prayer in which you are thanking God for always loving you, no matter what you do.
Author: Dave Strehler
Text edited by Naomie
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