Oftentimes, we find ourselves in situations that are difficult and we conclude most times in doing things that have grave consequence though at times very funny. There are few but salient questions I want to raise in with us-:
• Have you had a wonderful and a glorious experience sometimes back and now you feel empty when the memory comes?
• Are you feeling that something is missing in your life?
• Have you mismanaged what you ought to effectively manage and now sees yourself were you ought not to be?
While I leave you to ponder on these questions, don’t spend much time as these are just straight forward questions.
I met a young influential man few years ago in a strange land but in a twinkling of an eye, he squandered all he had, why? Because his appetite for food and fashion was tampered with. You will agree with me that it is very difficult for a man of affluence and influence to suddenly lose all of these (great wealth and possessions), he’ll rather want to improve on it but for this young and energetic man, he could not maintain this status because he has been overpowered with riotous life. The bible says “And when he had spent all”. No man in the land was willing to hire him for any kind of paid work, even the hirelings could not see any productiveness in him. Not until when he offered himself for free service, nobody was going to employ him and even with that, he had to scramble with the pigs for food, but this was never the desire of his father.
Friends, have you got to that junction in life? before, you were so full with life from God but now the only thing you are filled with is emptiness? Sometimes ago, you don’t spend hours waiting on God before you hear Him expressly, but now week upon weeks you are still waiting to hear from God on a very small issue that you solve in a matter of minutes before, could it be that before, sickness of any type don’t come near you but for sometimes now you have been having fellowship with different types of sickness? In those days when you were still with your father (God) you go up and down boasting about this FAITH but now, you dare not open your mouth because your testimony has been soiled with riotous living.
A riotous life; a life that makes you get spent (you spend all you have and you spend your life also). The word you speak talks only about you and not the father that gave you the life you are living, the presence of God has now been fully substituted to that of yourself.
How I wish that you will come to understand quickly that you are being spent and if a caution is not thrown into the air, you will become totally spent. Friend, going to be slave will not also help issues here because the sustenance of the pigs is also what this “dear son” is living on.
When a man spends all, nothing is left again, when a man had squandered all, he will ever be complaining about everything, at this point, suffering will suffice for enjoyment, but did you know something? This young man came to his senses and he made a final U-turn to the Original and the eternal source of life.
How far are you into this riotous life my friend? How deep are you in this lifestyle? The wonderful news is that when this young boy was busy lamenting to his father on how he had lived his life, the only thing his father was waiting to do is to restore him and lo he was restored.
God is willing to do the same to as many that are willing to come back to Him and as many that are willing to start a journey with our Lord. Don’t forget this that His longsuffering towards us all is that no man will perish.
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