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True repentance begins with the sight of sin. In the parable of the prodigal son, the younger son demands his inheritance, leaves home, and squanders everything until he is feeding swine and starving. Then he comes to himself and sees that even his father’s hired men have more than enough while he is perishing. He resolves to return, confess that he has sinned against heaven and before his father, and ask only to be made a hired man. While he is still a long way off the father runs to him, embraces him, and receives him as a son. Sight is the first ingredient of repentance: before a man can come to the Father, he must first come to himself.
True repentance begins with the sight of sin. In the parable of the prodigal son, the younger son demands his inheritance, leaves home, and squanders everything until he is feeding swine and starving. Then he comes to himself and sees that even his father’s hired men have more than enough while he is perishing. He resolves to return, confess that he has sinned against heaven and before his father, and ask only to be made a hired man. While he is still a long way off the father runs to him, embraces him, and receives him as a son. Sight is the first ingredient of repentance: before a man can come to the Father, he must first come to himself.
