ACTION

What life action do you need to take right now?

The life alarm is going off but you haven't gotten up to do anything about it yet ...

... in a relationship
... in your diet
... with your family
... in your walk with God.

What is it?  What's the action just waiting for you to move on?

Because listen ... the devil knows if he can get you to hit snooze, he wins.  Ten more minutes and ten more minutes and ten more minutes and suddenly you're at the end of a life.  He doesn't mind you waking up again and again, as long as you never get up.

That was the quandary facing the Prodigal Son in Luke chapter 15.  He's sent off with a fortune by his father.  It's his inheritance - received early at his own request.  He goes to a distant country and spends it all -- then begins working among the pigs, ultimately craving what the swine are eating. At some point he realizes he needs to go back -- under the roof and care of his father -- the one he had left so selfishly and stridently.

Can you imagine what that moment must have been like?

Broken.
Miserable.
Pathetic.
Damaged.

And there waiting for him, his elder brother -- always the perfect one -- who had watched him walk away with his share of the family worth -- now watches him walk back in with nothing but stench on him.

How hard would it have been in that moment for the younger brother to say, 'I have nothing left.  Can I come in?'

'I have nothing left.  Can I come in?'

Don't you see that is exactly our story?

We've enjoyed the love and care of the Father.
We've asked for our own way.
The Father has granted us undeserved blessing.
We've accepted it open-handed and walked away with as much of it as we can carry.
We've used it up in entertaining living and then become depleted due to carelessness, irresponsibility, disobedience, inattention, neglect, disregard.

Then when we've realized the grass wasn't greener after all -- we've decided to be back in the comfort of the Father is where we really belong.  'I have nothing left.  Can I come in?'

What do you think the Father says a million times a day to that question?

'You are all sons and daughters of God thru faith in Christ.'  (Galatians 3:26)

Take action.

And be blessed.