Running Away From Home in Rebellion Never Satisfies - It Usually Results in the Exact Opposite

A man had two sons.
The younger came and said, "Give me what is mine. I want it now.
I am going to grab and go".

The person who says, "Give me" usually has to learn to say, "Forgive me".
This young man had to learn that life does not consist of getting one's own way and demanding one's rights. Father gave him what he asked for, and let him go.
There is no arguing and there is no seeking to persuade him to stay at home. If this parable had not come from the lips of Jesus Christ we might even question its worth, value and reliability.
Within a few days he left home, planning to live it up, and have fun and freedom.
He thought the good life was out there as far away from the father's house as possible! He thought that a life filled with pleasure was the thing to seek and go for! He despised all the privileges of the father's house, and for a while he even forgot about his father, but his father never forgot about him.

This young man soon wasted all his wealth.

Squandering all his money, he blew the lot, having nothing to show for it, except regrets.
Money can vanish fast if you spend it on pleasure. The land to which he had gone experienced famine.
A crisis arose which he had not expected, and soon he was in great need.
Rebellion against the father never leads to life, but to the opposite.
Why does this happen? Because it is sin! Rebellion against the father results in sadness, humiliation, depression and destruction: if not today, then to-morrow. Having to find work, he took a job feeding pigs. For a Jew, this was utter humiliation. Becoming so hungry he could have eaten the pigswill.

He was lonely and isolated and so out of things and so on his own.

When he left home he never intended ending up in this mess. Few ever do, and he was now in a real mess. You can real what actually happened in the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament at Chapter 15. He did come to his senses and he did come back home. If you have run away from home, come to your senses and go back.

If your son has rebelled and run from home pray for him and look for him to return and make peace. Running away in rebellion never satisfies. Sandy Shaw.