God Demonstrates His Grace

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The story of the prodigal son moves my heart to delve into new depths of God’s limitless grace. I find myself in every facet of Jesus’ words of this story. I identify with the younger son’s rebellion. I identify with the older son’s judgement and resentment. I identify with the experience of the father’s compassion and love.

Today we begin a week long focus at this lifegiving, and perception shattering story of Jesus, the story of the prodigal son. May God draw you even closer to him this week, and teach of you his redemptive and life changing love.

Our Scripture for today comes from John 1:16, and today's worship is Grace by City Alight.

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Thanks so much for listening to this first podcast in our week-long focus on the prodigal son.

Every day this week, we’ll look at a different aspect of this story, creating room for God to apply it to our lives, to illuminate new ways he wants to love us. Tomorrow we’ll do that by looking at how patient God is with us. I think tomorrow’s podcast will really give you some peace and help you get rid of some self-judgment. So make sure to come back tomorrow for that.

Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The story of the prodigal son moves my heart to delve into new depths of God's
0:09.9	limitless grace. I find myself in every facet of Jesus' words of the story. I identify with the younger
0:17.5	son's rebellion. I identify with the older son's judgment and resentment. I identify
0:23.0	with the experience of the father's compassion and love. Today we begin a week-long focus at this
0:30.1	life-giving, perception-shattering story of Jesus, the story of the prodigal son. May God draw you
0:37.1	even closer to him this week and teach you
0:39.9	his redemptive and life-changing love. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. No single passage of
0:51.6	scripture has impacted my life in greater ways than Jesus' parable of the prodigal son.
0:57.8	I find myself in every facet of the story.
1:01.4	I see my own sin and pride in the foolishness of the Son to run from the Father.
1:06.8	I see the despair and destruction that results from my own sin, as the son longs for the slop he feeds to the pigs.
1:14.9	I see my desperate need for forgiveness, grace and restoration, and the son's return.
1:21.1	And more than anything, I see the unfathomable grace of my heavenly father,
1:26.3	as the father in the story runs out to embrace his
1:29.8	disobedient and wayward child. Rather than beginning this week on the prodigal son with my
1:35.3	thoughts on the story, I want to create space to allow the entirety of Jesus's words in this
1:41.5	transformative story to impact your life. Ask the Holy Spirit for fresh eyes today.
1:47.6	Find yourself in Jesus' words. I pray that you will feel the selfishness and rebellion in the
1:53.9	prodigal son. I pray that you will feel the despair and loneliness that comes from sin and separation
1:59.5	from the Father. And I pray that you will feel the loving embrace of your Heavenly Father
2:04.4	as the heart of your God is clearly displayed through this life-changing story.
2:10.5	There was a man who had two sons, and the younger of them said to his father,
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