He welcomes his son home with loving arms.
God always wants us to seek and love Him.
Jesus tells the story of a man who has two sons. The younger son asks his father to give him his portion of the family estate as an early inheritance. Once received, the son promptly sets off on a long journey to a distant land and begins to waste his fortune on wild living. When the money runs out, a severe famine hits the country and the son finds himself in dire circumstances. He takes a job feeding pigs. He is so destitute that he even longs to eat the food assigned to the pigs.
The young man finally comes to his senses, remembering his father. In humility, he recognizes his foolishness, decides to return to his father and ask for forgiveness and mercy. The father who had been watching and waiting, receives his son back with open arms of compassion. He is overjoyed by the return of his lost son! Immediately the father turns to his servants and asks them to prepare a giant feast in celebration. Meanwhile, the older son is not one bit happy when he comes in from working the fields and discovers a party going on to celebrate his younger brother's return. The father tries to dissuade the older brother from his jealous rage explaining, "You are always with me, and everything I have is yours."
The Scripture Luke 15:11-32
And he said, A certain man had two sons, And the younger of them said to his Father..... Father, give me the portion of goods tat falls to me. And he divided them unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my Father's have bread enough to spare, I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and before you, And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants. And he arose, and came to his Father. But when he was yet a great way off, his Father saw him, and had compassion and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father I have sinned against Heaven, and in Your sight, and am no more worthy to be called Your son. But the Father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; let us eat, and be merry: For my son was dead, and is alive again, he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Your brother is come; and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound. And he was angry and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve you, neither transgressed I at any time Your Commandment: and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my fiends: But as soon as this your son was come living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours. I was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.