Thursday, March 31: Scripture – Luke 15:13-19
13 A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.
14 When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
15 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.
16 He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.
17 But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!
18 I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’
Prayer Focus: The younger son takes all that he had and travels to a distant country. He loses everything and finds himself working with pigs. The original hearers of this parable could probably imagine no farther fall from grace than this. But the son “comes to himself” and realizes that the servants back home are eating better than he is. So, he practices a speech to ask his father to let him in at least the back door. It does not sound like repentance, more like a growling stomach. Yet, the longing to return home – even for quite selfish reasons like we find here – is very strong. Pray that you might go home, whatever that might mean for you, today.
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