Can God Really Forgive Me?

"God could never forgive me. I’ve done some awful things.”

How many times has that thought passed through the synapses of human brains? Does it frequently lodge in your “gray matter”? When you are alone at night with just your thoughts, are they thoughts of despair, hopelessness, and frustration?

The private thoughts of a prodigal boy in a pigpen in the far country give us some hope (Luke 15:11–32). That boy was an invention of the Master storyteller to share a message about forgiveness . . . about a Father’s all-encompassing, incomprehensible love . . . heaven’s sermon of hope when the devil preaches despair.

That hungry prodigal knew his rich father would not go to bed without supper that night. But the son would. Pondering this thought, he realized that nobody on his father’s farm would fall asleep with a growling stomach. But he would. Even his father’s servants had “bread enough and to spare” (Luke 15:17). But he didn’t.

Since the father in the parable represents the Father in the Bible, we can draw some interesting conclusions from the phrase “bread enough and to spare.” God has never been stingy with His blessings. He “giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not” (James 1:5; cf. 1:17).

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