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b'Is there any hope if someone imitates the prodigal son in Luke 15, if they wander away from our heavenly Father, and live it up in various sins season after season? Most people say, \\u201cNo.\\u201d Yet if that\\u2019s what you and I think, we\\u2019ll likely never pray with hope for our wayward prodigal family members and friends. Most people also say, \\u201cWhy should I care? It could never happen to me.\\u201d True, none of us wake up in the morning and say, \\u201cI think I\\u2019m going to deliberately rebel against God and screw up my life today.\\u201d No, we much more often choose to sin by degrees. How prone we are to hear God\\u2019s Word and then shortly after ponder, \\u201cWell, I am forgiven after all, and I\\u2019m not quite strong enough to obey that anyway.\\u201d The problem, as James 2:10 reminds us, is that to disobey God in one point is tantamount to rebelling against everything God has said. The answer, James goes on to say, is to humble ourselves, confess and turn from our sins, and earnestly turn back to our heavenly Father with hope and great anticipation. Is that what you want to do today? I hope it is. This is Andrew Palau.'