Max Lucado
Life LESSONS
LUKE 15:1–32
If there is a scene in this story [of the lost son] that deserves to be framed, it’s the one of the father’s outstretched hands. His tears are moving. His smile is stirring. But his hands call us home. Imagine those hands. Strong fingers. Palms wrinkled with lifelines. Stretching open like a wide gate, leaving entrance as the only option.
When Jesus told this parable of the loving father, I wonder, did He use His hands? When He got to this point in the story, did He open His arms to illustrate the point?
Did He perceive the thoughts of those in the audience who were thinking, “I could never go home. Not after my life”? Did He see a housewife look at the ground and a businessman shake his head as if to say, “I can’t start over. I’ve made too big a mess”? And did He open His arms even wider as if to say, “Yes. Yes, you can. You can come home”?
Whether He did that day or not, I don’t know. But I know that He did later. He later stretched His hands as open as He could. He forced His arms so wide apart that it hurt. And to prove that those arms would never fold and those hands would never close, He had them nailed open.
Life LESSONS
LUKE 15:1–32
If there is a scene in this story [of the lost son] that deserves to be framed, it’s the one of the father’s outstretched hands. His tears are moving. His smile is stirring. But his hands call us home. Imagine those hands. Strong fingers. Palms wrinkled with lifelines. Stretching open like a wide gate, leaving entrance as the only option.
When Jesus told this parable of the loving father, I wonder, did He use His hands? When He got to this point in the story, did He open His arms to illustrate the point?
Did He perceive the thoughts of those in the audience who were thinking, “I could never go home. Not after my life”? Did He see a housewife look at the ground and a businessman shake his head as if to say, “I can’t start over. I’ve made too big a mess”? And did He open His arms even wider as if to say, “Yes. Yes, you can. You can come home”?
Whether He did that day or not, I don’t know. But I know that He did later. He later stretched His hands as open as He could. He forced His arms so wide apart that it hurt. And to prove that those arms would never fold and those hands would never close, He had them nailed open.
Max Lucado
Life LESSONS
LUKE 15:1–32
If there is a scene in this story [of the lost son] that deserves to be framed, it’s the one of the father’s outstretched hands. His tears are moving. His smile is stirring. But his hands call us home. Imagine those hands. Strong fingers. Palms wrinkled with lifelines. Stretching open like a wide gate, leaving entrance as the only option.
When Jesus told this parable of the loving father, I wonder, did He use His hands? When He got to this point in the story, did He open His arms to illustrate the point?
Did He perceive the thoughts of those in the audience who were thinking, “I could never go home. Not after my life”? Did He see a housewife look at the ground and a businessman shake his head as if to say, “I can’t start over. I’ve made too big a mess”? And did He open His arms even wider as if to say, “Yes. Yes, you can. You can come home”?
Whether He did that day or not, I don’t know. But I know that He did later. He later stretched His hands as open as He could. He forced His arms so wide apart that it hurt. And to prove that those arms would never fold and those hands would never close, He had them nailed open.
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