Love Of The Father

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ss in the next pasture always looks greener. “But here is a certain heartless callousness in the request of the younger son,” says William Barclay. So we see here that with no respect for his father of for his father’s life he asks for his inheritance. He basically says, “Give me now the part of the estate I will get anyway when you are dead, and let me get out of this.”
He didn’t like it at home; he fell out with his father and lost fellowship with him. And so the father gave to him his living, and the boy left with his pockets full of money—which he did not earn with work that he’d done himself. Every bit that came to him, his father had given to him. He didn’t get it by his ability, he didn’t get it because he was clever, and he didn’t get it because he had worked hard. The money he had in his pocket was there because he had a very generous father. And so the boy starts out for the far country. “The Father does not argue. He knew that if the son was ever to learn he must learn the hard way; and he gave him his...