REMEMBER TO COME HOME

Read: LUKE 15:11-24

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Bible in a year: Ezra 4-7

There are moments in life when we forget ourselves. Not because of memory loss, but because of losing our spiritual direction. Like the youngest son, we go far away from our Father's house, thinking that freedom is to detach ourselves from the Father, and what we later find is emptiness, hunger (verse 14-16). Forgetting ourselves - separating ourselves from the Father, the Source of Life - always leads to spiritual emptiness and soul hunger.

Forgetting ourselves lurks through many opportunities: when we judge ourselves solely based on success, when we listen more to the voices around us rather than the voice of truth, when we are too busy to have time for God. We work hard, chasing recognition, then quietly lose peace.

Spiritual emptiness and soul hunger make the youngest son remember his Father's house, realize himself, and decide to come home. "I will rise and go to my Father" (verse 18). He knows his Father will always receive him.

Indeed, every time we forget ourselves, God hopes that we remember to come home. Coming home does not mean stepping back, but finding the true direction of life's journey, recognizing who we really are: not slaves of busyness, not shadows of ambition, but beloved children longed for by the Father.

Therefore, let us look up to the Father, and say like the youngest son, "I will rise and go to my Father." Come home, to rediscover our lost selves, to rediscover the true direction of life's journey that we once forgot. --EE/www.renunganharian.net

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FORGETTING OURSELVES IS LOSING SPIRITUAL DIRECTION. AND COMING HOME IS FINDING AGAIN THE TRUE DIRECTION OF LIFE'S JOURNEY.

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