Good Morning Friends,
"Jesus said: 'There was a man who had two
sons. The younger one said to his father, 'Give me my share of the estate.' So
he divided his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got
together all he had, set off for a distant country and squandered his wealth in
wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that
whole country, and he began to be in need. He went and hired himself out to a
citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to
fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him
anything.'" (Luke 15:11-16)
The parable of the prodigal son tells the story
of what it's like to be lost. It's a story most of us are familiar with because
it is our story. The world looks so inviting, especially when we are young. We
feel confined by the things we've been taught about God's standards and we want
out. We want to be free live like we want to live instead of being bound by
things that seem only designed to take away our fun. Many of us left the
Father's house and traveled down that road of what we thought was freedom.
Like the prodigal, we find that what looked
like freedom and fun from a distance wasn't so free and wasn't so fun. In the
end, we realized that life away from God was empty and miserable. That's what
the son realized after he squandered his money. He found himself in deep need
and in that need he turned back toward his father's house.
When you look at the lives of the people around
you who do not know God their lives sometimes seem so good. They are free, they
are having fun -- or so it seems. But remember your own story and the truth
told by the prodigal -- the freedom and fun of the world are illusions that
last only briefly and turn to the emptiness they really are. True freedom and
satisfaction are found in only one place -- with the Father!
His, by Grace, Steve
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