Is There A Prodigal Child In Your Family?
There is a story in the bible about a father and his son.
I will paraphrase it, the father was very wealthy and one day his son asked him for his inheritances, he gave it to him and the son went away.
However, he spent it all on wild living and soon found himself penniless and living among swine's eating hulk beside them.
One day the son came to himself and said that he would return home to his father's house and become a servant there because being a servant is better than the way that he was living.
The father, though he was rich did not go to look for his son nor did he send his other son after him and neither did he send any of his servants after him.
What he did was wait.
I believe the father believed that God would bring back his son and he did not want to get in His way.
He was willing to let God take charge and do what was best for his son.
We love our children and want the best for them, we may have brought them up in the admiration of the Lord but they have turned from Him.
It is a painful thing for us to see our children living a wayward life especially if we know that we have trained them better.
We may have talked to them repeatedly about their behavior or we might have bailed them out of their trouble numerous times but to no avail, they are still disregarding what we are telling them and are still getting into trouble.
Yes we would pray for them and plead with God to deliver them but we would try with all our might to help them, which is where we made our mistake.
Notice what the prodigal son father did.
He knew his son very well and probably had an idea that he would waste his fortune yet he did not go looking for him.
Instead he waited and that is what we need to do.
Instead of bailing our children out of everything that they get themselves into, we should pray and wait on the Lord for his salvation.
Yes that might be a hard thing to do but everything else has failed so why not try waiting on God.
He has never failed in anything.
In time the son came to himself and said that he would return to his father's house.
Our children will need to come to themselves on their own without our intervention.
If that son came to his senses surely ours will do the same thing if we would pray and wait on the Lord.
I will paraphrase it, the father was very wealthy and one day his son asked him for his inheritances, he gave it to him and the son went away.
However, he spent it all on wild living and soon found himself penniless and living among swine's eating hulk beside them.
One day the son came to himself and said that he would return home to his father's house and become a servant there because being a servant is better than the way that he was living.
The father, though he was rich did not go to look for his son nor did he send his other son after him and neither did he send any of his servants after him.
What he did was wait.
I believe the father believed that God would bring back his son and he did not want to get in His way.
He was willing to let God take charge and do what was best for his son.
We love our children and want the best for them, we may have brought them up in the admiration of the Lord but they have turned from Him.
It is a painful thing for us to see our children living a wayward life especially if we know that we have trained them better.
We may have talked to them repeatedly about their behavior or we might have bailed them out of their trouble numerous times but to no avail, they are still disregarding what we are telling them and are still getting into trouble.
Yes we would pray for them and plead with God to deliver them but we would try with all our might to help them, which is where we made our mistake.
Notice what the prodigal son father did.
He knew his son very well and probably had an idea that he would waste his fortune yet he did not go looking for him.
Instead he waited and that is what we need to do.
Instead of bailing our children out of everything that they get themselves into, we should pray and wait on the Lord for his salvation.
Yes that might be a hard thing to do but everything else has failed so why not try waiting on God.
He has never failed in anything.
In time the son came to himself and said that he would return to his father's house.
Our children will need to come to themselves on their own without our intervention.
If that son came to his senses surely ours will do the same thing if we would pray and wait on the Lord.
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