Eats with Sinners

I wanted to share this excerpt from my favorite book What’s So Amazing About Grace. Enjoy…

The story of the Prodigal Son, after all, appears in a string of three stories by Jesus – the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son – all of which seem to make the same point. Each underscores the loser’s sense of loss, tells of the thrill of rediscovery, and ends with a scene of jubilation. Jesus says in effect, "Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed by most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost." To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime.

Pain in Full