Me: Where did your friend go?

Prodigal: He took off like two hound dogs backed into a porcupine when she found out, I was going to go exercise.

Me: Well, I will stick around.

This is from the book All of Grace by C.H. Spurgeon

Let me give you a bit of personal experience. When I was under the conviction of sin, under the hand of the Holy Spirit, I had a clear and sharp sense of the justice of God. Sin, whatever it might be to other people, became to me an intolerable burden. It was not so much that I feared hell, but that I feared sin. I knew myself to be so horribly guilty that I remember feeling that God did not punish me for sin, He should do so. I felt that the Judge of all the earth ought to condemn such sin as mine. I sat on the judgment seat and condemned myself to perish, for I confessed that if I had been God, I could have done nothing else than send such a guilty person as I was down to the lowest hell.

There is a choice though and that choice is named Jesus Christ. He died for our sin so we would not have to pay the price. He may have excepted Jesus as Savior but we need a refreshing of our spirit. Sins have covered your soul and created a covering of dust on you. We go to Christ and ask him to examine our hearts and then repent of sins. It does not have to be done in front of all. No this is between you and the Lord. Afterward you will feel renewed and joy will return unto you.

Psalm 30:2

O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org