The parable of two lost sons

. . . What did the older son most want? If we think about it we realize that he wanted the same thing as his brother. He was just as resentful of the father as was the younger son. He, too, wanted the father's goods rather than the father himself. However, while the younger brother went far away, the elder brother stayed close and "never disobeyed." That was his way to get control. His unspoken demand is, "I have never disobeyed you! Now you have to do things in my life the way I want them to be done."
     The hearts of the two brothers were the same. Both sons resented their father's authority and sought ways of getting out from under it. They each wanted to get into a position in which they could tell the father what to do. Each one, in other words, rebelled--but one did so by being very bad and the other by being extremely good. Both were alienated from the father's heart; both were lost sons.
     Do you realize, then, what Jesus is teaching? Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were  using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake.

The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller, pp. 41-42

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