A penitent backslider and a forgiving God!

PEARLS from PHILPOT

(Choice formatted selections
 from the works of J. C. Philpot)

A penitent backslider and a forgiving God! 

"And while he was still a long distance away, 
 his father saw him coming. Filled with love 
 and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced 
 him, and kissed him." Luke 15:20

After a child of God has enjoyed something of 
the goodness and mercy of God revealed in the 
face of His dear Son, he may wander from his 
mercies—stray away from these choice gospel 
pastures—and get into a waste howling wilderness, 
where there is neither food nor water—and yet, 
though half starved for poverty, has in himself 
no power to return. 

But in due time the Lord seeks out this wandering 
sheep, and the first place he brings him to is the 
mercy seat—confessing his sins and seeking mercy. 

O what a meeting! 

A penitent backslider and a forgiving God! 

O what a meeting! 

A guilty wretch drowned in tears—and a loving
Father falling upon his neck and kissing him! 

O what a meeting for a poor, self-condemned wretch, 
who can never mourn too deeply over his sins, and yet 
finds grace super-abounding over all his abounding 
sins—and the love of God bursting through the cloud, 
like the sun upon an April day—and melting his heart 
into contrition and love!