"God, I wish you would hurry up and DIE, so we could get our inheritance and get on with living our lives -- out from under Your shadow, Your system of rules, laws and their supposed consequences!"
Just as the prodigal son essentially hurled a similar insult to his father, so the insult reverberates across the ages, to our world today -- "God, DIE!" This is or has been the heart's cry of each of us, including me -- judging from our prideful life styles that say, "Let me live MY life on MY own terms, not Yours!"
Well, my friend, God DID die, in the person of His Son, Jesus, for our lives, and He DID leave us the earth as a (temporary) inheritance. And, man, have we ever messed them both up -- our lives and the earth. Thank God, as with the story of the prodigal son (you know it well), that's not the end of the story. May we be prompted to ponder ...'the REST of the story', the story of God's loving offer of another chance to each of us individually (that's you) to find His rest and peace through the forgiveness of our sin. This incredible forgiveness is only made possible by Jesus' sacrificial death that paid the immutable penalty for our sinful disobedience when we essentially said, "God, DIE!"
Ok, He died once. No more. Now it's your turn, not to die, but to seize your time to live, and I mean REALLY LIVE!
"...For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
