04/09/2026
In Luke 15:11-32, the younger son knew he had an inheritance — that knowledge is exactly why he could ask for it, and it is the same inheritance we have in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:11, 18); the question is not whether it exists, but whether we are aware of it. The elder son, though he never left home, lived as if he had nothing: "lo these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid" (Luke 15:29). The Father's answer quietly exposes his blindness — "Son, thou ever art with me, and all that I have is thine" (Luke 15:31) — meaning the feast was never withheld from him; he simply never believed it was already his. The prodigal's one real disaster was not the requesting and not even the wasting; it was the disconnect from his Father's presence, for an inheritance enjoyed away from the Father becomes a foreign country. So let us be wiser than the elder brother and better than the younger: hold the inheritance by revelation, and never trade communion for convenience — because connection is where the inheritance becomes enjoyment.
