A Little Gracious
Starvation
"And he would fain have filled his belly
with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto
him." Luke 15:16
He (the prodigal son) gave to them: he spent all
his money with them. He was a fine fellow then, so they said.
But now, no man gave to him. And what a mercy it was, for if
they had given him all he wanted, he would not have gone back to
his father. There is nothing like a little
gracious starvation to fetch a man home to Christ. And it
is a blessed providence, and a blessed work of the Spirit of God
when a man, at last, is starved till he must go home to God.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Exposition on the
Prodigal Son.
