582nd Post Jesus Said Concerning Parables Con't. - Parables on Forgiveness Con't. - Parable of the Prodigal Son Con't. 9th Post - Luke 15: 11 - 31, Con't.

Luke 15: 11 - 31 Continued 9th Post Parable of the Prodigal Son.
We left last post talking about the love the father showed his son.  The father in this parable loves his son with agape love.  What is agape love?  Agape love is unconditional love, this is the way God loves us.  Only God is capable of this type of love.  St. Paul gives a definition of this love in 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 8a.  God is infinite, we are finite.  It is because God is so much greater than our ability to understand; this is why Jesus told this parable, to try to explain how much different God's love is from ours.  I have been trying to show in this blog the difference between how God thinks how and we think.  When the father in this story asks his servants to put a robe on his son, sandals on his feet, and a ring on his finger, the father is restoring his son to his previous position before he set out on his own.  This goes against our feelings of fair play.  This is why I keep reminding us that God's ways are not ours, and He holds to a higher standard than us.  We as God's children must try to strive to achieve this standard of love.  God created us and knows that we are not capable of this quality of love.  This is our goal to try to achieve this. I will contrast human view of love and God's in next post.