How many times have you heard the parable of the prodigal son? I know I have numerous times.  What is crazy is that I have always been taught that it was about the father who welcomes the lost son home, when really this parable is speaking about the older brother even more so than the younger.

If you look at the beginning of Luke 15, Jesus was talking to both tax collectors/sinners (the younger brother type) and Pharisees (the older brother type).  In the end of the parable, it’s the older son that has left ‘the family.’  He stuck around for selfish reasons and ended up sinning by obeying.  How crazy is that?

Are you an older brother?  Are you judgemental of younger brother types?  Do you obey God for your own good?  Think about it.  Challenge yourself to really sit down and discover if you act like the older brother.  If you do, then there is a change of heart that needs to take place.