Can you see the youngest son attitude towards the world? Longing for it, craving for it. He sees that the grass, it would seem, is greener on the other side. And can you see the rashness of it? Once he is given these things, it says not many days, he thrusts himself into the world. He's impulsive. He's spontaneous. Maybe that's you. I mean, you don't have to be 18 or 19 to do this. You could be in elementary school. You might not physically pack your bags and go to Vancouver or Toronto, but you may have a desire. And whilst you can't physically do do that, maybe it's what you look up on the internet. You dream about doing this or going to this place and that place. You dream of a far country. You don't want the safety. You don't want the provision of your family. You don't have to be young. You might be older. You might be married. You might have desires. You might have lusts and ambitions for a better life. We've all been there. Those who win, those who inherit great sums often are worse off just three months down the road. A well-known fact, they squander it. They waste with reckless and extravagant living. And this kid is no different. In verse 30, uh, the older brother suggests it's through prostit prostitution. I presume he partied hard. He he drank a lot. Maybe there was gluttony and gambling. Who knows? But he received from father that which he demanded. He lived it up. He squanders all. And in God's providence, seasons change. A famine exposes his need. We see this in verse 14- 16. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his field to feed pigs. and he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate and no one gave him anything. He's got no money for food so hires himself out to be a farm hand to feed pigs. You have to understand how humiliating this would have
