You are all probably familiar with the parable of the Prodigal Child which appears in the 15thchapter of Luke’s gospel. If not, you might need to take a quick peek at it before reading this spiritual, metaphysical interpretation.
From a literal viewpoint, it's an engaging parable of separation and reunion, with a little bit of human ego thrown in! On the one hand, we've got a younger materially-minded boy who asks for his inheritance early, gets it, squanders it, and is then welcomed back into the fold, forgiven, and rewarded with more material things. On the other hand, we have a devoted older child who feels left out, taken lightly, and a bit jealous. We also have a father who's got the wherewithal to reward both boys, loves them similarly, and would do absolutely anything for either of them. If this was all there had been to this story, it'd be a homecoming filled with questions and mixed blessings.
But there’s more to the tale. Much more! Let's take a better look. A spiritual, metaphysical look:
The more youthful child symbolizes our undeveloped appreciation of our true spiritual nature, a nature that tends to let our ego get in the way. Like him, we learn Truth elements, use affirmations and denials, experience Truth principles working in our lives, our good manifests, and then we forget about our connection to Spirit. Sound familiar?
We use our inheritance (our manifested good) from our Father (the I Am Presence within us) and go to a “far country” (which stands for our material consciousness). Lured by the pull of plasma TV’s, expensive houses and autos, Wall St promises, lotteries, drugs and alcohol, and coconut rum ice-cream, we squander our good because we are inconsistent in our Truth walk. Advertisers let us know we are unfinished unless we buy this or take on loans for that. And we think them! We permit our material appetites to trump our spiritual commonsense.
Then we awaken to the truth of who we really are (the prodigal comes to himself) and realize our connection to Spirit (in the tale the more youthful child says: “I will rise and go back to my Father“). When we go to our I Am Presence, we find the happiness, peace and prosperity we seek.
In the story, while the prodigal son is yet far off his Pa sees him (that suggests even though we forget our oneness with our Christ Nature by giving power to outer appearances, God knows us and welcomes us with amazing excess when we respect our God-Mind connection).
The older son, who stayed with the father all along, represents our moralistic and stern poverty consciousness. Like him, we lose touch with our excess because we block our good with our doubts, fears, lack of faith, impatience, jealousy and any other form of lack consciousness that separates us from enjoying the excess we can have. All we have to do is ask, believe strongly in our fitness to receive, and enjoy our excess. But we go to a “far country” instead of Headquarters!
Whether we are going looking for our good (like the more youthful boy) or fail to fully appreciate it when we are standing in the middle of it (like the bigger brother), we finish up in the same place if we are inconsistent in our meditation, prayer, faith, forgiveness, and tithing.
These are the metaphysical keys to climbing our wealth. The earlier we grow out of our prodigal decisions and the sooner we make prosperity-affirming selections a habit, the sooner we’ll enjoy the inheritance that is ours, pushed down and running over and walk the spiritual path on practical feet.
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