Finding Back to the Father: It is Never Too Late to Return

Giuliana Cooper
3 min readJan 13, 2024

Many people have become alienated from God, and do not have a relationship with God. This can be for many different reasons; for one they find it hard to trust an invisible God, or perhaps their picture is distorted, and therefore they have made up their own opinion as to why they do not seek a relationship with our heavenly Father.

Many people also feel ashamed because they have turned their back a long time on God, or they have sinned. But we are all sinners, every single one of us, and God knows that he has sent his one and only son to pay for all of our sins once and for all, and accepted this so that we, as sinners, can come back to the Father and have a relationship with him.

´(3) So He told them this parable: (4) “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost, [searching] until he finds it? (5) And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. (6) And when he gets home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ´Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!´ (7) I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.´ — Luke 15:3–7 AMP

This parable tells us clearly, that God rejoices when a person who has turned their back on Him, repents and finds back to Him. The whole Heaven is celebrating when a…

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