+ When we realize we are wasting God's resources and will be held accountable, it gives us a chance to think, act decisively, and make a fresh start.
+ We can make a fresh start today by investing God's resources in people who will become our eternal friends.
+ Resenting his father's gracious welcome to the prodigal younger brother, the older son refused to join the celebration.
+ Because we all are accepted on the basis of grace, celebration and joy can be our only response to humble repentance. Joy is the only option.
+ God our Father allows us to experience the painful consequences of sin when we walk away from Him and live for ourselves.
+ God our Father joyfully welcomes back all repentant sinners—even those who seem irretrievably lost.
+ The first recorded meal--when the first human couple eats forbidden food with a stranger; their eyes are opened and they are expelled from God's presence.
+ The meat in the new creation--the meal with the resurrected Jesus, tells us that paradise, God's presence, is once again open to us.
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