Me: It looks like you got a nice surprise!

Prodigal: Yes, and I will share.

Me: I will share also.

This comes from the book The Reason For God by Timothy Keller

The devastating loss of shalom through sin is described in Genesis 3. We are told that as soon as we determined to serve ourselves instead of God–as soon as we abandoned living for and enjoying God as our highest good–the entire created world became broken. Human beings are so integral to the fabric of things that when human beings turned from God the entire warp and woof of the world unraveled. Disease, genetic disorders, famine, natural disasters, aging, and death itself are as much the result of sin as are oppression, war, crime, and violence. We have lost God’s shalom–physically, spiritually, socially, psychologically, culturally. Things now fall apart. In Romans 8, Paul says that the entire world is now “in bondage to decay” and “subject to futility” and will not be put right until we are put right.

Psalms 37:4

Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org