At the worst moment of his life, the prodigal son said: “How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!” (Luke 15:17).

These are very profound words that a reflecting son, in a moment of spiritual and mental sobriety, recognises that he was in a worse situation than his father’s servants. Being a son, an heir, he was in misery, wanting to eat the pigs’ food (he was in charge of feeding them). And the pig owners would not allow him to share that food, the pigs’ ration. That is, he didn’t even have the pigs’ ration to eat. This was the situation of a son who turned his back on his father, who preferred to believe in the promises of the world, that the world had something better to offer him and that his father’s house was a prison. He thought, “I can’t stay here, because I can’t do everything I want.”

In other words, he also killed his father before his time. Because, before leaving, he asked for an inheritance, which was only granted when his father died. But the prodigal son did not want to wait for his father to die. With all the worst experiences he could go through in his life, this son proved that the world he so loved and coveted was not what he thought at all. He thought he would be received with hugs, joy, affection and friendship. But, he was greeted with cleverness and stealing. Everything he had was taken from him. As long as he had money, people were partying with him and took everything from him. But when he had nothing left to offer, not even a plate of food was given to him.

Now, you who are in this situation of contempt, rejection, of having tasted the bitterness of this world thinking it was sweet as honey for the taste, know that the Lord Jesus did not leave the prodigal son’s story for nothing in the Scriptures. Listen to the message above in its entirety and learn what God has to say to you.