God Chasers Daily Devotion-#56

I think we will all be surprised at the number of people who will start crawling out from the crevices of society when they see the Church repenting! Once again, it all goes back to our most serious problem—we don’t have the bread of His presence. Our churches are filled with “career prodigals” who love their Father’s things more than their Father. We come to the family dinner table not to ask for more of the Father, but to beg and persuade Him to give us all the things in His house that He promised are rightfully ours. We open the Book and lick our lips and say, “I want all the gifts, I want the best portion, the full blessing; I want all that belongs to me.” Ironically, it was the father’s blessing that actually “financed” the prodigal son’s trip away from the Father’s face! And it was the son’s new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father’s arms.
(The God Chasers, 121)