Luke 15:25-32
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, 26 and he asked one of the servants what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the calf we were fattening and has prepared a great feast. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’ 28 “The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him, 29 but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve worked hard for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. 30 Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the finest calf we have.’ 31 “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you and I are very close, and everything I have is yours. 32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.) 1996.

The father forgave his son out of love for him. But his brother refused to forgive because he was bitter about the injustice of it all. Life is just like that, some seem to get more favor than others even though they do not deserve it. But it is not about what we deserve or even about being fair. There is no fairness in life. The sooner you learn that the sooner you will be able to go on with what you have to deal with. Even though life is not fair, God is. His love is the same for every person in this world no matter what they have done or not done. To us this is not fair, because we may have done more “good” than others and yet God loves them just as much as He loves those who do His will. God rejoices greatly over any sinner when they voluntarily come to His love. That is what He wants. It is not that He does not rejoice over those who walk in His love, because He does, it is just that there is great joy throughout all of heaven when someone comes to God of their own will. It does not matter what they have done. Even Hitler or Bin Ladin would receive the same love and mercy, if they truly repented and accepted God’s love. How easy it is to resent God’s gracious forgiveness. But if our self-righteousness gets in the way of rejoicing when others come to Jesus, we are no better than the Pharisee of Christ’ day. Who do you need to forgive today? Go to God first and then go to them if you can and let it go! Rejoice that God loves them as much as He loves you. After all, there are people that you have hurt and they need to forgive you. None of us is without sin, no matter how small or how great. Forgive and rejoice over those whom God loves. Wouldn’t you want the same from those who look at you as the greater sinner?

Have a God Day!