“And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.” Luke‬ ‭15:21‬ ‭KJV‬‬. One of the things often overlooked in this passage of the prodigal son is, the brokenness and humble spirit of the son when he returned to his father. The very thing that caused him to go back to his father was his realization that for all his efforts to make it on his own, he still needed his father. Spiritually this is one of the great failures of modern religion. Far too often, souls are instructed merely to believe. Many churches today actually discourage the Biblical truths of repentance, brokenness and humility. But God help us to realize, there is no way to the Heavenly Father, noway for us to be saved, except through humility. Apart from true humility we would never see our need of a Saviour. We would never plead the merits of Jesus’ atoning blood. But when the convicting power of the Holy Spirit touches us, then we will truly recognize our condition and we will be humbled. Then we will say with the prodigal, “I am not worthy to be Your child, I’m not worthy of the least of Your mercies”. May God help us, in this shallow religious generation, to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father. His arms are always open to the humble, but He will resist the proud.