# “Christ’s arms are wide open to embrace the returning prodigal” by Thomas Brooks

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2022/04/23/christs-arms-are-wide-open-to-embrace-the-returning-prodigal-by-thomas-brooks/
- Published: 2022-04-23T12:00:49-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“The second remedy against this device of Satan is, solemnly to consider, _That 
the promise of grace and mercy is to returning souls_.

And, therefore, though thou art never so wicked, yet if thou wilt return, God will
be thine, and mercy shall be thine, and pardon shall be thine:

> **2 Chron. 30:9**, ‘For if you turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your
> children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they
> shall come again into this land: for the Lord our God is gracious and merciful,
> and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.’
> So **Jer. 3:12**, ‘Go and proclaim these words towards the north, and say, Return,
> thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause my anger to fall
> upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.’
> So **Joel 2:13**, ‘And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto 
> the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
> kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.’
> So **Isa. 55:7**, ‘Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his
> thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and
> to our God, for he will abundantly pardon,’ or, as the Hebrew reads it, ‘He will
> multiply pardon:’ so **Ezek. 18**.

Ah! sinner, it is not thy great transgressions that shall exclude thee from mercy,
if thou wilt break off thy sins by repentance and return to the fountain of mercy.

Christ’s heart, Christ’s arms, are wide open to embrace the returning prodigal.”

–Thomas Brooks, “[Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513026?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
[_The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 1_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513026?tag=toletaupanre-20),
Ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1666/2001), 1: 140.

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## Comments

### By: Deb Siler

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2022/04/23/christs-arms-are-wide-open-to-embrace-the-returning-prodigal-by-thomas-brooks/comment-page-1/#comment-29941
- Published: 2022-04-23T12:41:59-05:00

Good verses to pray on behalf of a young woman who has turned her back away and 
good verses to be reminded that God does not turn his back away to the repentant
dinner