The Waiting Father (Luke 15:11-31)

Dear all, i'd like to jot down some of the stuff that Bishop Hwa Yung shared with us tonight, during the Good Friday's Service.

Please, if you guys have anything to add...just click "edit post" or add in comments ya! Afterall, it'll be good, to have everyone chip in whatever that came into your mind, what you have wrote in your little notebook, thoughts, experience or perspective, etc..etc...

Well, i might have missed something of what the Bishop have shared...so yeah, if there's anything that speaks to you tonight, do share it k? (:

• Love, this is a story about love
• God made us for Himself --> until we rest fully on the Lord, our hearts will go restless
• Each and everyone of us have wounds deeper than what we can imagine, BUT healing is there in Jesus
• God brings hope to broken relationship
• We all struggles with insecurity
• Many of us find security and love in the wrong place ----> work, bgr, fame, money, status, recognition, attention....
• We all want to be long for, claim, love, fight for, etc...
• We all need a sense of security, a sense of identity and a sense of selfworth
• Change, Heal and Transform ---> these are the glorious message of Good Friday
• Good Friday brings us healing, love, joy, security
• The story of the 2 prodigal sons:

1st son (younger son) :

Found God, after much sorrow, and tragedy, he look to the only one who can help him; his father.

2nd son (older brother):

The older brother found great difficulty to forgive the younger brother because he felt that he has done so much more that what the younger brother has done, he felt that he has always been there, that he has given his best to the father. The older brother's resentment rendered him just as lost to the father's love as his younger brother had been.

The son refuse to forgive because he was bitter.

Sometimes, because of a lot of things, we want to be accepted, we fight to be acknowledge, we want to be known, we work hard to earn something.

God :

God's great love reaches out and finds sinners no matter why or how they got lost. In this story, the father watched and waited. He was dealing with a human being with a will of his own, but he was ready to greet his son if he returned. In the same way, God's love is constant, and patient and welcoming. He will search for us and give us opportunities to respond, but he will not force us to come to him. Like the father in this story, God waits patiently for us to come to our senses. The father forgave because he is filled with love.

• However, sin and guilt prevent us from going to God.
• God is still waiting for us to go back to Him.
• Are we seeking approval, love, security in the right place?
• God is waiting.

Just.me.ally