“Come Back Home” This is the weekly email devotional of WhoUWith? Ministries (2004)   “It is never too late to start doing what is right.” --Charles Swindoll Ever felt like you have done too much wrong for God to still love you? Ever felt like you have gone too far for God to still reach you? Yes and yes! I know there was a point in my own life where I didn’t see how in the world God could still care about me, let alone love me. Even if He did still love me, I didn’t know how I could receive that love after what I had been doing. It had become easier to “live in sin” than to “deal with sin”.. Remember the story Jesus told of the lost son? The father’s son went off to a far country and lost all his inheritance in “wild living”. Unfortunately, you and I both know exactly what that “wild living” is all about. The amazing thing about this story is that the son decides to return home to the father. And while he is walking up the street to his old home, his daddy runs out to meet him! Did you catch that? He hadn’t even made into the front yard and his dad runs out to embrace his lost son. The father had been waiting, hoping, praying, yearning…watching for the return of his son. All the son had to do was come back home. What does God’s Word say?: Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world-- the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does-- comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 It is true…it is never too late to start doing what is right! It is amazing to me that the father would embrace his lost son…the son who had squandered all his inheritance…the son who had been in “wild living”…the son who had shamed the family name. Yet in the very same way, our heavenly Father wants to embrace us. All we have to do is return home. He is yearning, watching, waiting…waiting to run to you and embrace you! It is never too late…come back Home today! Just a thought!