It has been said that life is a journey. We can often find it difficult to navigate and make sense of this journey. We can easily become lost. In this passage is the story of a young man who was lost. He said to his father ‘give me my share of the estate’.  Jesus wants us to see how the son treated the father because that is what it is like when people are lost in their sins.

For the son in this story he squandered what he had been given and was in a desperate condition … feeding pigs in a muddy enclosure. He had hit rock bottom. In this condition, however, he thought he would go back to his father and rehearsed what he would say, even asking to be made like one of the hired servants.

The father came running to him when he saw the son returning and embraced him. Just like the young son, when we hit rock bottom and are lost in our sin, we too can go to the Father. The good news is that God loves us like the father in the story. We only need to look at what happened to the one who told this story.  Jesus went to the cross so that we could be forgiven and come back to the Father.