My thoughts on the prodigal son part 2

My thoughts on the prodigal son left off with him being destitute and eating pig slop to stay alive. This is when he remembers the goodness of his father. He humbles himself, deciding to go back and begging his father and becoming one of the servants. He remembers his father took it care the servants. This is the part of the story is most familiar to people in many times people say "the prodigal as returned" to indicate a turning point in a young person's life. I don't think that happened to the son while he was living with the pigs. I think it happened later because of the fathers response to his return.
As he returns to his original home and father the father is waiting for him and looking for him. We're not told how long the son was away. As a minimum I'm sure it is weeks, possibly months and even a year. Being a father of 3 sons understand the fathers part of this. Every day is waiting for the return of the son because he knows how unfriendly the world is and he knows he is nothing but love for the son regardless of how the son views him. The father your and for the son to return. In this story the father represents God and the son represents the wayward. Jesus said that the father sent him (Jesus) to seek and to save that which was lost. When the sun returns he finds out that the father has been waiting for him. This is true of our God. Is waiting for sinners to repent and come to him through Jesus Christ. Some of us like a prodigal have to hit bottom before we wake up to the father's love. Some never need to experience this and know the father's love. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the father ran to him when he saw him a far off. Can you imagine the prodigal coming home and seeing an old man running to greet him. Earlier in Luke 15 it says there is joy in heaven months the Angels and one sinner repents. This is the most familiar portion of Luke 15 the prodigal.
In this portion where he introduced to a group called the father servants. The prodigal is going to ask to become one of them because they are well treated. The father doesn't bring this up but falls upon the son and weeps because it returned. I will leave off here but there is more to speak of about the older son and the father servants and the fathers reaction to the son to return. Hopefully it will post this in the near future.
I think I have mentioned this before but there is a hymn that goes "softly and gently Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me…come home oh sinner, come home. It's also good to remember that the book of Romans tells us "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. No one is left out of this group.
Thank you for reading my blog. Your friend Phil