Sunday Service

Today I attended the very late service of the church on Berkeley Campus. Today's passage was about the prodigal son and how he had these big dreams and asked his father for his inheritance trying to make it big away from home. As the story goes on he ends up being a pig feeder and at very rock bottom to the point where he is envious of the food the pigs are eating out of their pods. Then he goes back to his father to repent. He was going to go back and plead to be a hired servant because surely they have more food then that of his current situation. It turns out that as his father spots his coming in the distance, his father runs to him and embraces his son with a welcome heart. The relationship between the father and son in this touching family story is great, but also a correlation to our relationship with God. A constant in our lives is that without his presence, the sin of man will flourish. Whether it be the obsession with money, careerism, or something else, there will be a hole in us... a yearning for something more. C.S. Lewis states, "If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." What we may perceive as bringing happiness here on earth will not fill this hunger, and we often forget that as we live our daily lives. I myself have not been diligent in attending the church and following Christ. Especially after leaving college and moving across the country. But as the father accepts his prodigal son's return, God welcomes us with open hands. Guide me to be in your image.