What is This?. James Henry Bryant

      A Father’s Love

      There are many lessons, poems, teachings, songs eccettra about a Mother’s love, but not so many of a father’s Love. In today’s lesson we turn to Luke, chapter Fifteen, verses eleven through thirty-two, King James revised version translated out of the original tounge around 1611 by permission of King James of England. In this lesson Christ tells the story of a young man who wanted to venture out on his own, You ‘Know how us Kids are or even how we were when we thought we were grown and couldn’t wait to leave the nest.

      In verse eleven it reads “And Jesus said, A certain man (Notice no Name is given) had two sons, (again no name is given) so since no woman is mentioned, it is assumed that this man with no name is a single Father, who is doing his best to raise two boys, so being a single dad is nothing new as Ecclesiastes three, fifteen states, “That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past. “so nothing new.

      Verse twelve reads, And the younger of the two boys said to his father, Dad give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. In other words, that trust account you set aside for me when I reach a certain age, or that Social Security allotment or Government allotment, you been putting in year after year, month after month, I want that. Apparently the Father didn’t question or haggle the boy because the verse continues by saying and the Father divided unto them (I’m assuming both boys by the word them, only giving the younger his portion and letting the older sons stay put.

      Verse thirteen tell us, “And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country. It seems after the father had given the boy his portion or trust that it was burning a hole in his pockets, he couldn’t wait to spend it, do you know what I’m talking about? You good folks don’t