The completely undeserved “Welcome Home”

If you look over a lot of the posts that I have written in the past couple years for this site, you will see an undercurrent of mild confusion on the Christian life and how I am supposed to live it out.  This is especially evident in my last post talking about the difficulty of talking to God in the morning.

Well last week, God blew my doors off on my way to work.  Through church conversations and reading, I have been more and more shown the importance of the Gospel, that is God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:8).  His work on the cross is what saves us, not our works thereafter.  In light of this, I drove into work listening to a song called “Welcome Home” by a band named Radical Face (good band), and God spoke to me.  C.S. Lewis said, “I find in myself desires which nothing in this earth can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”  I really agree with Lewis’s thought as I often long for the home that I feel I was made for, heaven.  God, this morning, married the Gospel with this thought for me in my car.  He calls out to me to welcome me home, which I was formed to enjoy, but yet am utterly undeserving of.  Christ’s sacrifice for my sin not only saved me from Hell and wrath, but made opened a pathway to even be able to go home.  In terms of the parable of the prodigal son, the joy that the Father shows when welcoming his lost son home is only possible through the incredible sacrifice of Christ.  Not only does God run to His redeemed in joy to establish an eternal fellowship / welcome them home, but He sacrificed Himself to make a way back even possible.

This brought me to tears and I praise God for the Gospel.  How sweet it is to find oneself in the providential love of God.  Going to tell someone today about it.