Running to Jesus

How many times have you read the story of "The Prodigal Son"? In this you see a son leaving his family after demanding his share of the family wealth. He not only cuts himself off from his family leaving a heartbroken father. After leaving, losing everything, he had to go back to his home. Here is where the community would shame him, announce to all that in their eyes of all including his family he was dead in their eyes. The father never gave up hope & when he saw him coming down the road, he ran to him embracing him,taking the shame for his son. Now God's Word tells us that this is how Our Heavenly Father loves us unconditionally & His arms are wide open, just Run to Jesus I have prayed about this for days to make sure what I am about to share is from a pure heart, to encourage others that might have to face this in their lives. You see this story was used by my family when I "left their family"abandoning the family of Jehovah's Witnesses, writing a letter for every member of my family to sign this declaration of my "death" to them as I turned my back on Jehovah God & was no part of my family, which included all of the witnesses, that the shame I put on them was like the prodigal son. The problem with what they were saying was not the truth, actually it was just the opposite. I most certainly was not turning from Jehovah, I was turning to Him where He showed me how to run to Jesus, how He loved me unconditionally without having to earn that love. The fact is we can't earn His love as we are all "filthy rags" until we are cleansed by the blood of our Savior, Jesus. Did this make me perfect? By no means, as being imperfect I sin everyday, doesn't have to be a BIG SIN as a SIN is a SIN in God's eyes. This is the awesomeness of this new Person I have become is I don't have to carry that great burden of guilt on my shoulders that had weighed me down the first thirty-five years of my life, Jesus Christ walked before me,loved me before I existed, came to the earth suffering the cruelest death just because He loves me & releasing me of the guilt & shame of feeling unworthy of His approval. Yes I was stamped as "the prodigal daughter", they just forgot to finish the story of how the father took his son's shame publicly embarrassing him lovingly. As Jesus loves me unconditionally, I can honestly say I love my family, praying every day for a reconciliation of being a family again, but my Jehovah God through His Son Jesus have instilled in me The Holy Spirit that was given to me freely the moment I knew Him. I am so Blessed that I have this amazing Savior that tells me each & everyday to "Come here little one, run to your Father." I know many doesn't approve of the way I look at if, but that's ok as I love you anyway but to me I feel Him saying, " Run to Your Daddy, I'm here for you & if you are hurting just climb up in my lap & let Me kiss your boo-boo until it's gone." I am not making light of the Holiness of my Lord & Savior, Im giving Him Honor, Praise, Glory & my love to to Him, knowing without a shadow of a doubt that no matter where I am or what circumstances are He has my Hand giving me Peace that only He can give through His Grace & Love. Proverbs31 has a devotion of The Prodigal Son that will be a blessing to all. Web site: proverbs31.org, click on devotion then for May 27 . I know many of you know this story but I encourage you to read it again putting yourself right in the middle knowing at anytime you can run to your Father, your comforter, you rock that is waiting, watching for you to run to Him. This is found in Luke 15:11-32. Once again I just want to emphasize this is in hope of someone who needs to be reminded that God loves us & always will if we accept Him knowing as sinners we are forgiven simply by knowing His Son, Jesus loves us unconditionally, died for us frees us from our guilt & shame. I love you all & pray for God's blessings be with each & everyone of you. Psalm103:13-14: "As a father has compassion for his children,so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him; for He knows how we ars formed, He remembers that we are dust."(NIV) **Added note: Yesterday at Sarah Thomas's Graduation PARTY, my little great granddaughter, Tenley, came running up to me & said " Mena, I have a boo-boo on my foot." She wanted me to hold her & kiss her boo_boo so it would feel better. Without thinking for a minute I lifted that little dirty foot(she had been playing outside) & kissed it all better. She got down & went back to play but when we started to leave she came back in going to the car with me to put a band-aid on it which I did. The important thing is I was thrilled when she wanted me to make it all better, feeling so blessed that she loved me so much & knowing that Nena was going to do it. I believe that is how God feels when we need Him to make things better & we run to Him with complete assurance that He will be waiting to make it all better.