True Meaning of The Lost Son

8″The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. ²⁹But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. ³⁰But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

³¹” ‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. ³²But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”

We read this powerful story many times. There are modern-day examples of this story in movies and TV shows all the time. But what does it really all mean for us? When we read this story we usually look at the son who left and tell ourselves that if and when we leave for a while, God will have open arms when we come back. But what about that other son?

Maybe the point of this story is to warn us from becoming the bitter do-good son who is jealous when God forgives the sinner. Maybe the true meaning of this story ( i know, it’s the Bible and it has many meanings) is to warn us not to have an attitude of arrogance or ENTITLEMENT!

God, break the attitude of my heart that would be jealous of a lost son coming home!