Luke 15:13

Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

From Background Notes [BN] for June 30^th / July 1^st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The younger son's plan to request the early withdrawal of his inheritance meets with unmitigated disaster. Everything goes wrong. The verbs highlight the simple fact that the younger son lost control:

…verbs involving what the son did get eclipsed by verbs with subjects other than the son. He is finally at the mercy of "what happened”. Having lost his possessions, the younger son lost control and others make his decisions for him ― unhappily. His life collapses into passivity.

What he imagined as true freedom plunges the younger son into despondent slavery to circumstances that are, for the moment, out of his control. That’s not exactly the kind of freedom he wanted or planned!  [BN, 3-4]

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