LET US SEE O LORD YOUR MERCY AND GRANT US YOUR SALVATION

A few days ago, a couple from Costa Rica came to visit my wife and I. One of the sites we took them to was Montreat College, a Christian school on a small lake surrounded by the North Carolina mountains.

We picnicked beside a creek and visited the Chapel of the Prodigal. Inside the chapel is a large fresco depicting the prodigal son being lovingly received by his father upon his return. Perhaps no other passage in the Bible better illustrates God’s mercy than this parable in Luke 15:11-32.

A PIcture of God’s Mercy

In this story, a father has two sons. The youngest asks his father for his share of the estate, then moves to a distant country where he squanders everything away. Destitute, he finds a job doing the most despicable work a Jew can do — feeding pigs.

Finally, starving and totally broken, the younger son decides to return to his father and beg him to make him one of his hired men. In doing so, he would be admitting he’s unworthy to be called his son.

But while the younger son still a long way off, his father runs to him and embraces him. At the house, the father dresses his son in fine clothing and puts together a feast in his honor because “this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found” (Luke 15:24).

Even though the son rebels against his father, when he returns, broken and repentant, his father joyfully has mercy on him. What a wonderful analogy how God the Father welcomes us home when we repent! In our sin, we’re like the young son squandering the life God has given us. But our Heavenly Father eagerly awaits our return and longs to welcome us in
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