Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 27 February 2020 – A Brother to the Prodigal

Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 27 February 2020 – A Brother to the Prodigal 

TOPIC: A Brother to the Prodigal

SCRIPTURE: Luke 15:25-32

MESSAGE: In today’s lesson, we see the reaction of the elder brother of the prodigal son. He had been a wonderful son, serving their father faithfully without transgressing in anyway. Hearing the sound of music and dancing as he returned from where he had been toiling in the field, he became angry, to the extent that he would not go inside the house.

Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 27 February 2020 – It took the father’s loving plea to help him to understand. As this son was angry, so were the Pharisees with Christ for receiving sinners. So, too, the eminently respectable self-righteous in the church often are,when sinners, the despised and outcast, are converted. As his father pleaded with him, God in Christ still entreats all such to join in the welcome of the repentant. He laid hold on the fact that he never transgressed, portraying a self-righteous spirit. His charges also show that while living with his father, he was far away from him in spirit.

The father pleaded with him, trying to bring him to a better frame of mind, as Christ pleads with Israel. From the beginning, all the estate belonged to him, yet he was not aware of it. The father affirmed that all he had belonged to him. “And if children, then heirs -heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ …” (Romans 8:17). Are you like this envious son?

PRAYER: Father, teach me not to be envious, and help me to realise my place in your House. Amen.

DAILY QUOTE: “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 27 February 2020