Father’s Goods

We are all acquainted with the parable of the prodigal son, as recorded in Luke 15:11-32. We know that the younger son grew restless in father’s house, was lured by the world round about him, wanted to venture out, to be on his own and to do as he pleased. We also know that he asked his father:  “Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.”  And that his father divided unto him and to his brother “his living,” so that he went to a far country where he “wasted all his substance...