Luke 15:16-17

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

We look at the prodigal son and instantly think of how he came back to his father. But I want to point out he didn’t get cleaned up after eating slop. How do we know? The Bible never mentions it. He didn’t prepare an excuse for leaving; it says he ran to his father, and when he was far off, his father saw him and rejoiced, 'My son is alive! Kill the fattened calf, get the family ring! My son is alive!' We get so caught up in the rejoicing that we miss the most important thing: the repentance. And I want us to look at something else - David, in Psalms 51, we recall the moment when he repents. But notice it doesn’t say anything about him washing up. Why is this so important? Well, in Judea and Jewish customs, it’s considered holy to wash up, to clean up, to rinse off, to become proper before coming to the father's house or entering into a time of prayer. I’m not talking about a bath or shower this morning; I’m talking about a moment when we realize it doesn’t matter how clean we appear to be, we are sinners in need of a savior. So David’s cry was the same as the son's - not just for forgiveness but also for cleanliness, to rid of the filth that was on them. David cried out, 'Cleanse me and wash me.' The prodigal son ran to the father, and then the father said, 'Give him all clean stuff.' See, the father cleaned the prodigal up, and David. Often times, we eat the slop of life, the sin that so easily entangles us, and we find ourselves trying to get cleaned up, if you will.

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