God has often missed and wept over the lost relationships with His children, as they depart Him and go their own ways for a season. It's not only the loss of relationship with them that He mourns but it's also because He knows what they will have to endure because they fail to heed His directions in their lives. They not only lose the loving comfort of their Father in Heaven but they lose the ability to show and share God's unconditional love with their families, which will result in seperation and discord.
One of the wonderful qualities of our God though, is that He is Patient and Forgiving and will be waiting with open arms to receive His children back into His loving embrace. But like the vine that has suffered the wounds of neglect from lack of water and nourishment, we will need to continue to seek His word and directions for nourishment, to help to revive our families love and trust. This will take time and patience on our part, which WILL be given to us by Our Lord! [1 Peter 1:22] "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.", gives us one of many promises from God. His only requirement? "unfeigned love"! Only because of His love for us, are we even able to love others, [1 John 4:16], especially our families. Thank you Lord, for Your Love!
Loving Father, we thank You for your kindness, faithfulness and especially, for Your forgiveness. I join my brother is asking that You place a confidence in his heart that You and only You can restore his relationships with his sons. We pray that You will remove any seeds of mistrust and fear they may feel, which would hinder their willingness to receive this father's love. We ask that You, through the power received of the Holy Sirit, give an abundance of patience to him, that he will continue to wait upon You and trust that You share the desires of his heart, for the restored and renewed love of his family.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen!
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