So He Spoke

And he spake this parable…

Luke 15:3a

For the believer, the words of Christ are the end of all controversy.  An example of this is Christ’s statement, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.’  We accept this statement as it indicates that Christ is the only way for us to enter into a relationship with God.  Because we do accept Christ’s words as authoritative, we believe what He tells us about all the subjects upon which He speaks.  This includes His description of God the Father.  Christ knows God the Father thoroughly and can speak authoritatively as to what He is like.  For the next little while, we are going to examine what Christ has to say about God the Father in the very picturesque account of the prodigal son.  This is one of the most poignant and endearing descriptions of the Father that we have in Scripture.  We want to bear in mind that this description is from the One Who knows the Father in every detail.  Normally, when we consider the narrative of the prodigal son, we center the majority of our thoughts on the young man.  For our purpose of coming to a better understanding of God the Father, we will consider Him as Christ depicts Him by describing to us the father who appears in this story of redemption.  Today, let us begin by focusing on the fact that what we are about to observe derives directly from what ‘He spoke.’

Our Holy and Wise God,
we rejoice that You are our Father in heaven.
We praise You that we can hear the words of Christ,
and thereby come to a better understanding of Who You are.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning