IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE 2

OUTSIDE MY FATHER’S HOUSE

Using the prodigal son as our case study, what were his encounters on his journey outside his father’s house? I am sure this will give us a more realistic and clear picture of life outside my father’s house. Experience they say is the best teacher but I add, it is the best teacher when the victim is somebody else and not you. Let’s proceed by reading through Luke 15:13-17a;

“And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.  And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself...”

A number of points to be noted from his encounter outside home are as follows;

-the first thing to note is that living became a risk outside is father’s house

-for the enemy to be able to successfully afflict a child of God, that fellow must be far away from God (home) in most case because of sin

-waste and riotous living is the order of the day: people perish, Hosea 4:6.

-he didn’t have enough

-famine showed up for him

-he lost his dignity to people he should naturally be lording

-he joined himself to citizens of that outer country because every country has its own rules by which it is being governed

-he was assigned a place among pigs; it is a norm when you stray away from home

-struggling took its toll on him as his appetite switched from good food to pig’s husk. Let me quickly say that what many run after today by reason of their location is as good as pig’s husk

- Finally, favour departed from him as no man gave unto him and his state was defined as being insane.

Now that we know how life treated him outside his father’s house it becomes very easy for us to know what life’s like in his father’s house. But before I proceed let me clarify that the government of the outer-world is headed by the devil and that could be likened unto life outside the garden of Eden while on the other hand, Eden i.e. our father’s house, our real home is headed by God.Tomorrow we'll see the components of our father's house. God bless you.