What is most important to God? I like to ask this question and make this point often because it underlines one of the most important things for us to grasp. We all fail in many ways and sometimes we feel that we have failed so consistently and so badly that God doesn’t want to have much to do with us anymore. We have this feeling that we can’t go and face God after living so badly for so long. We feel that need to have something to bring to God that will please him: self-sacrificial deeds, ministry achievements, a consistent prayer life, a morally pure record. And when we lack these things, having only failure to speak of, we feel that it would be a disgrace to just turn up before God and expect him to accept us after so long going the wrong way. This assumes though that the most important thing to God is what we do. If I lost one of my children, if they left home and rejected me, the thing I would be most concerned about would not be what they were doing and whether they were being good and succeeding in the ways I would want them to succeed. The most important thing to me would be to reconcile with them, and I would seek this at all costs. What God most wants is you. It’s not what you may or may not bring or what you have or haven’t done that concerns him the most. God the father just wants his kids back. Everything pales into insignificance beside his desire to retrieve his lost children.
Thank God for his love and grace for you.
Read Luke 15:1-32
