Jesus said, “don’t let your heart be troubled” (John 14:1). When Jesus said this to His apostles, His earthly mission was just about over with. But Jesus’ apostles, they were just really about to begin the main part of their earthly mission. Their mission to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and Jesus knew how important it was for their hearts not to be troubled. Listen in on this lesson and learn what they learned from the Lord that you also may live and facing all the troubles of life–without a troubled heart…
Our lesson comes from a parable that Jesus taught about son who to took all his inheritance that his father provided then went to a distant country where he “squandered his estate in foolish living”. We need to draw some parallels in our own lives that we all have done at one point or at multiple points in our lives. That we have taken the blessing that God has provided for us, and we throw them away. We waste them in foolish, reckless, wasteful living, to please ourselves. The Bible calls it sin (Romans 6:23). But of course when we’ve went down that path we always have to come to this point where we say, “Enough’s Enough”, I’m not going to keep going down that path anymore, I’m not going to keep wasting my and wasting the opportunities that God has given me, and the blessings God has given me. I need to stop, I need to start living for God and stop wasting my life…