When our Lord wanted to drive home a truth, he told a story and the greatest story ever told is the story in the Bible of the Prodigal Son. Every preacher has tried to preach it; songs have been written about it; movies have been made of it. There are Prodigal Ministries and Prodigal Magazines, but let not our familiarity with the story blind us to its meaning for our lives. For whoever you are, wherever you came from, however you perceive your future, you are in this story, in every word on every line. “A certain man had two sons.”

ONE SON IS A PRODIGAL. He wants it all; he thinks life is to be found in far away places. His favorite words are me, my, and I, so he says to his father, “Give me the share of property that will belong to me; don’t put me in your will; write me a check.” We wo…