Running

I wrote a blog called "Will You Remember Me?" What's sad is that the person who needs to read it the most will, most likely, never see it. Running from God, from a calling, from everything that person knows is right, has become routine. But no one can run from God for long. Not when God has plans and promises that will be carried out.

While someone runs from God, the wake of people who are hurt and left behind grows. But the thing to remember is that while we may be wounded during their flight from God, one day, they will return. And when they do, we have to be able and willing to forgive them and welcome them home again. It's our responsibility - like the prodigal's father. We should run to greet them, get them back on their feet, to kill the proverbial fatted calf.

Forgiveness is easy if we keep in mind the things that God has forgiven in us- how far He's brought us- the things we've needed to be delivered of- and how we, too, needed Him to welcome us home. And when the prodigal returns, we'll be able to stand in the place of the Father and rejoice because someone we thought was 'dead' is now alive again.