All That I Have is Yours

Luke 15:11-32 (Key Verse: 31)

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And said to him, “Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.”

How happy is the Father and hosts of heaven when there is even one soul got saved out of a thousand of people we evangelized. Heaven is rejoicing over this one child of Him who came to his senses and reconciled back to his Father through Jesus Christ by the means of someone or you.

However, in this parable, I believe that the older brother was happy to know that his younger brother returned home safe and sound, what he was not blissful only was that his father threw a party for him, even to point of killing also the fattened calf for him. Traditionally, the fattened calf is being prepared for a great occasion in the future, a wedding, or any special event of the year. Yet, the father seems like wasted it for his prodigal son who can just have a decent welcome back home celebration. Plus, the father returned everything to this younger son, the sonship (the ring), the authority in the house (the robe), and the share to roam around the home (the sandals). How good their father is! This made the older brother jealous and decided not to see his brother and father.

When his father knew about his presence and not going inside, he went out and reached out also for his older son. In their talk, the older son complained about the party and the fattened calf and to a point of telling his father why he did not give the same treatment before just like what he was doing with his lost son. The father’s reply is mind-blowing and awakening to me. The father said, “Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.” It struck me because as if the father is indirectly saying, We live in the same house, you labor a lot and you are the reason for this great wealth in our house. Why you did not ask me?

Christians who grew in a Christian community sometimes have a tendency to be tempted and jealous about one sinner who came to know the Lord and in a snap his life turned upside down, he is blessed so much and you, for decades of being a Christian still wanting to have like him who is just a fresher.

This reminds me of James 4:2 [Yet you do not have because you do not ask.] and Matthew 7:7 [“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.] As children serving in His vineyard this is the only key to have things that we need and that is to ask Him. Simple as that but we ask why is He is not answering yet. We should consider His timing and the condition of our hearts also, as it is stated also in the book of James 4:3 [You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.]

The Father is so much willing to give us the desire of our hearts and the only thing we can do is to ask Him and according to His will and motives of our hearts, I strongly believe that He will answer our prayer. Therefore, let us ask him with the right heart and humility and to wait in His perfect timing.