Emy Moore Brookins

But...

He's been sitting on the porch waiting for your arrival, right?

The prodigal son is a son.

There were two brothers, right?

So one of the brothers took his inheritance early from his father.

This was basically saying, I wish that you were dead.

I want all your money, but I don't want anything from you.

He took all the inheritance.

He spent it.

And then while he was in the pig's pen at the lowest of lows, he had reached a rock bottom, literally.

And in the rock bottom,

He thought to himself that even slaves in his father's house would be treated better for where he was right there in that moment.

So in the pig's pen, in the biggest deficit of his life, when he hit rock bottom, the son thought to himself, if my father would just let me back in as a slave.

So he goes and he returns back to his father and he's going back to his hometown.

His father is waiting on the porch waiting.

waiting for his arrival.

And the moment he sees his son, he's running after him.

And even the scripture shows us that as he's running up to him in Jewish tradition, that in order for you to run, you would have to pull up your garments because men would wear

very long garments and so showing your legs was almost like a sign of shame or extreme vulnerability and so in the shame of the son the father takes it in his shame and runs after his son and brings him back home and shows him a great and gives him a great celebration and the gag is is that the son was going back home to be a slave not to be a son

And I think that is what we need to hone in for a moment is that the prodigal son, when he spent all of his money, when he slapped his father in the face, when he thought he was left abandoned and betrayed and he neglected his father and that nothing good is going for him.