Anne Taylor Robertson 14: The Prodigal God

In Tim Keller’s book, he talks about the two types of brothers in the book of Luke. The older brother had a chance to welcome his brother and love him like his father did, but he chose not to. Keller raises an interesting point; “The younger son gets a Pharisee for a brother instead. But we do not. By putting a flawed elder brother in the story, Jesus is inviting us to imagine and yearn for a true one,” (Keller 84). God is a wonderful storyteller; He can write in a way that always leaves us wanting more. It’s frustrating and tiring and complicated at times, but we never stop wrestling with it until he makes us understand. I’ve learned from reading Keller that He leaves out critical aspects like these to be incomplete. We must go to him to be complete, and no one else.