The Servants Have Bread Enough And To Spare

Luke 15:11-32

Then He said: "A certain man had two sons. "And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to THEM his livelihood. "And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. "But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

"And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, AND NO ONE GAVE HIM ANYTHING."

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants HAVE BREAD ENOUGH AND TO SPARE, and I perish with hunger!"

"Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. "So he called one of the servants (who had Bread enough and to spare) and asked what these things meant."

"So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends."

"And he (the father) said to him, 'Son, you are always with ME, and all that I HAVE is yours."

The livelihood of the father, at that time, was divided between both sons. The younger son wasted it and the older apparently did not. When the younger son returned, repented for his covetousness and was received by his father, the older became bitterly envious. The younger son, having suffered hardship as a result of his decision to separate from the father, came back for the BREAD THE SERVANTS HAD and received much more. The older son, continuing in the vicinity of the father, was yet unaware of the BREAD sought for by the younger. He had to ask A SERVANT.
 
All the father HAD was available to both sons. It dawned upon the younger son that the LIVING BREAD was most important!