Scripture
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! Luke 15:17
Observation
There is no other story in the Bible that speaks so clearly the truth about sin. This is a story about a son who goes to his father and asks for his inheritance so he can leave and go live his life as his own terms. The father complies and the son is out the door.
He is living his dream; no one to answer to and living only as he pleases. Everything seems fine for awhile until a famine strikes, his money runs and he is faced with difficult times.
To survive, he takes a job feeding pigs. For a Jew there could nothing lower than this. It is here that he begins to realize things were so bad back in his fathers house.
Application
This story reminds me that I am not myself when I am not walking with God. When I chose to leave him; for an hour, a day or a lifetime, I will never be who I was created to be.
Sometimes I might be tempted to think that living in the “far country” is where the action is, but true freedom and happiness comes from being apart of the household of faith.
It is sad that too many have to leave to appreciate what they already had.
Prayer
Lord, thank you that even when I run, your sprit will always look for opportunities to bring me to my senses. Help me to realize that what the world offers is nothing compared to what you freely give to me.
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This son needed to see what I do. He saw his father as mean and waiting to see him as a bad person. He was shocked and surprised to see his father running (Jewish men of wealth didn't do that) to cover his rags, to put his signet ring on his finger and put shoes on his feet.
My Father can't hardly wait to get me home. He has done all that He can to safe us and to tell us our worth, the life of Jesus.
father keep me in your sheep fold for I am prone to running off and getting lost.
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