Thursday, March 17, 2011

From Mark Mallett: Entering the Prodigal Hour

Entering the Prodigal Hour

 

EVEN after he was completely broke having blown his entire inheritance, the prodigal son would not come home. Even after a famine swept through the land, he would not come home. Even after he—a jewish boy—could only find a job feeding pigs, he would not come home. It wasn’t until he was up to his knees in the pig slop of sin that the prodigal son finally had an "illumination of conscience(cf. Luke 15:11-32). It was only then, when he was utterly broken, that he was finally capable of looking inward… and then homeward again.

And it is this place of painful self-knowledge where the world must now go before it too can receive its "illumination"…

 

 

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