HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div
“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.” Luke 15:7
The Father is glad. He sings over His wayward, beggared, self-impoverished child, “This, My son, was dead — and is alive again. He was lost — and now is found.” May I satisfy the Father’s soul with my return! It will be the realization of His eternal purpose. It will be the restoring of His banished child — His banished, long absent child from His household, but never absent from His heart.
The Son is glad. He is the Good Shepherd who crossed the dark mountains and the deep waters. He grudges no pains to find His silly and perishing sheep. He carries it back to the flock and folds it. May I give this delight to Jesus! I would let Him see fruit from His own soul’s bitter travail. I would show Him that His expenditure of love and sorrow, has not been in vain.
The Holy Spirit is glad. Is not the Spirit like the woman, lighting the candle, and searching for her lost coin — searching until once more it is hers? His love for me is wonderful, surpassing the love of women. May He find me! Then will His patience and all the ingenuities of His wisdom and grace have their fitting recompense.
There is joy in the presence and the heart of God when a beggar and slave is saved — a soul forlorn and feeble and unworthy. Have His throbbing and triumphant bells pealed over my homecoming?
THE MYSTICAL COURT 