Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 15:31 (Holman Standard Christian Bible)

Son, he said to him, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

This statement comes at the end of the parable of the Prodigal Son. The father is talking to the older brother. I have always stumbled through this parable. There is something or other that doesn’t fit right in my way of thinking.

Why didn’t the older brother know that everything the father had was his? How could he miss something so simple and important?

Like I wrote earlier, there are things about this parable that just don’t fit with me. Perhaps one day.