Separated From The Father

²² “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. ²³ Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. ²⁴ For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.

-(Luke 15:22-24)

Every time I see this photo my heart always leaps and smile because of joy!:")

      In The Lion King,the lion cub Simba is separated in his youth from his father through a murder engineered by his uncle, Scar, the evil one in the story. Scar arranges for the cub to be caught in a stampede of wildebeests, knowing that his father,Mufasa,will risk his life to save his son. He does, and Simba of causing his father's death. Brokenhearted, frightened, racked with guilt, Simba runs away from home.

     This is the enemy's one central purpose-to separate us from the Father. He uses neglect to whisper, "You see-no one cares. You're not worth caring about." He uses a sudden loss of innocence to whisper, "This is a dangerous world, and you are alone. You've been abandoned." He uses assaults and abuses to scream at a boy, "This is all you are good for." And in this way he makes it nearly impossible for us to know the Father as Jesus knows Him. Satan makes it so very, very hard to come home to the Father, to trust His heart toward us. The details of each story are unique to the boy, but the effect is always a wound in the soul, and with it separation from, and suspicion to the Father.

     It's been very effective.

     But God is not willing simply to let that be the end of the story. Not in any man's life. He will come for the boy, no matter how old he might now be, and make him His beloved son.

-FATHERED BY GOD,57-58
-Knowing The Heart Of God,66
By John Eldredge