Conclusion of The Lost Son Who Was Lost Returns

When he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred throughout that country, and he fell into need. He even went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to heard swine. And he longed to be filled with the carob pods that the swine were eating, but on would give him anything." - LUKE 15:14-16.

God's Law categorized pigs as unclean, yet this son has to work as  a herder of swine. He is racked with hunger, which reduces him to wanting to eat what normally is food only for animals, the pigs he is herding.  In the son's calamity and despair, "he came to his senses."  What does he do?  "How many of my father's hired men have more than enough bread, while I am dying from hunger! I will get up and travel to my father and say to him: 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy of being called your son.  Make me as one of your hired men.:  Then he gets up and goes to his father. - LUKE 15:17-20. 

How will his father react?  Will he turn on his son angrily and scold him about the folly of leaving home in the first place?  Will the father display an indifferent, unwelcoming attitude?  If it were you, how would you react?  What if it were your son or daughter? 

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