Every once in a while you come across a song that puts a lump in your throat. I ran across a country song by Jason Michael titled “Hurry Home” that did just that. The song is about the message a father left on his phone in hopes that his daughter would call. The chorus goes like this:
“It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, I still love you.
It doesn’t matter where you’ve been, you can still come home
And honey if it’s you, we’ve got a lot of making up to do
And I can’t hug you on the phone, so hurry home.”
I went to a web site called “elyrics.net” to get the words and they are followed by comments from people who also looked up the words. The very first comment was from Christy who wrote, “This is something I wished my parents would have said to me, but never did. I’ve seen them so little in the last 15 years. I still wish they would’ve told me they love me and I could come back home.” There is a whole page of comments just like Christy’s.
All of us want to know we are loved and wanted…even if we don’t want to go home. Unconditional love doesn’t come around that often nowadays. The song says, “no matter what…I still love you”. God is that way and He proved it by sending his son to pay for our “no matter what’s”.
Luke 15: 11-31 tells the story of a son who ran away from home. The bible says he took his share of the estate and set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. Realizing his mistake, he longed to return but knew he was unworthy. He prepared a speech for his dad, “I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.”
In the bible, like in the song, the father was longing for his son to return. And when he did, before he could get his speech out, his father gave him new clothes and threw a party telling his hired men, “this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. So they began to celebrate.”
When we have done the unforgivable, God forgives. When we think no one could love us, God does. When we think we can’t go home, God greets us with open arms.
Psalm 103: 10-13 says of God, “He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.”
Never doubt the love of God. No matter what!
You can go to www.youtube.com and search “Hurry Home” to listen to the song.
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