Come back home

TODAY I am writing to all those run-aways male or female to consider going back home.

TODAY I am writing to all those run-aways male or female to consider going back home.

I am writting to you personally.

I want you to be inspired by the other run-away commonly known as the prodigal son in Luke 15.

I am not sure of what you did that led you to abandon your home, family, father, mother, wife or children. You might have left on your own accord or you were kicked out, but it’s time you came back.

Perhaps you stole, raped, killed, robbed, lied, prostituted and gossiped. I want you to understand that running away and staying away from people who love you is costly to you now and in the future.

For how long will you keep running and how does that benefit you. The more you stay away, the deeper you go into trouble and the more you lose yourself. In Luke 15, as long as the prodigal son remained in that place of begging, squatting and indecision, the more he fed with pigs and craved pig food.

The more he lost himself. You see, there are times in life when we think we are avoiding people or correction when in actual fact, we are avoiding ourselves and making ourselves more vulnerable.

There are times when we think we are running away from our omissions and commissions when in fact, we are running away from ourselves and falling low and deep.

It is when we are in such a situation that the enemy deceives us more and will make pig feed smell delicious.

He will make demonic living seem so saintly and attractive. You are the greatest victim of the state you are in right now.

The prodigal son craved food for pigs so much. Perhaps where you are right now you are craving more wrong so much.

You are committing more wrong, crime and sin so much that you think there is no turning back. Today I just want to show you a way out. You can turn back home.

Come back to your senses. Only when the prodigal son came back to his senses did he make a life-changing decision. Right where you are, you can take a pause and come back to yourself. You have been out of yourself for a long time.

The real you thinks better than this. As long as you are still determined to hate the people back home, to deny what you did, to shift blame and remain arrogant, you are out of yourself. The way forward my brother and sister is to come to your senses.

Victory comes when we can face ourselves with brutal truth. We can pray for you, and miss you and cry for you but if you, yourself, do not come back to yourself, you will remain trapped.

He came to his senses and thought of home. He thought of his father. Come on now, your father, your mother and siblings will never disown you no matter what you did.

Think of them in the context of love. Anyone who has their senses will always go back to their own.

Make a decision and carry it out. He decided he would go back home.

He arose and headed back and when the father saw him from a distance, he ran to meet him, kissed him and restored him. Do not allow fear of rejection deceive you. Your people will restore you.

No normal father can disown his blood. Arise from where you are and get back home. You will be surprised. You have believed a lie for all along that they will reject you. It’s all up to you.

I know and am convinced there are so many young people and even elderly people living in the wilderness afraid to go back home. The more you stay away from home the more the devil deceives and destroys you.

Stand up and find your way home now and escape the lies of the enemy.

This is a call that I make today to all of you out there. Seek peace with your people. It’s time to reconcile. It’s time to go back home to your father and mother. You need them.

They have your covering and blessing. One reason why, most of us, when our parents are dead and gone, we spend and waste time and resources visiting their graves and talking to the dead, is because while they were alive, we ran away from them, rubbished them and had nothing to do with them.

Suddenly they are gone and you realise the need for a father and you feel guilty and think you can correct things with a dead man. This is deception.

Do it now while you are both alive. You need each other now in this life. Go back home.

Kilton Moyo is pastor, guidance and counselling consultant and author of Responding to Personal Crisis. Call or WhatsApp on +263 775 337 207 or +263 712 384 841.