The Embrace Before You Arrive
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels like a verdict you deserve. You are waiting for forgiveness to arrive, but you keep checking your own worthiness and finding it empty.
The light does not wait for you to earn the right to be held. It has already run to meet you while you were still a long way off.
Before the speech, before the apology, before you could even clean the dirt from your hands — the embrace happened. You do not need to deserve the love that is already holding you.
The waiting is over because the Father saw you coming and could not wait to call you home.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:20
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