Good morning everyone and welcome to another mornings with the Masters, where we devote ourselves to the board

daily with you.

Today, we are in New Morning Mercies,

as well as our New Tindale chronological life application study Bible.

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It's a beautiful Bible.

It's laid out chronologically with a ton of study notes and charts and graphs and it's a beautiful way to really bring the text to life and study God's word and so we're going to jump in. Today's verse from New Morning Mercies is

Luke 15. It's 11 through 32 which is the parable of the lost son but I'm going to

hone in on verse 20 that says this.

So he returned home to his father, and while he was still a long way off,

his father saw him coming, filled with love and compassion he ran to his

son, embraced him, and kissed him. The study text from that says this.

In the two preceding stories, the seeker actively looked for the coin and the sheep

which could not return by themselves.

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, 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.

Just like we were talking about yesterday,

we are so thankful for God's patience with us.

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