Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 15:14

"And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want." — Luke 15:14 (ASV)

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land;

There generally does arise "a mighty famine" in such cases.

Famines and other miseries are God's messengers, which He sends after His wandering children.

And he began to be in want.

This was a new sensation to him; he had never known it when he was at home. He did not know it in his first boisterous days away from his father's house, but now he began to be in want.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

And the sinner's greatest all will be spent one day; the pleasures of sin are only for a season; the strongest sinew in an arm of flesh will one day crack; the flowers that grow in a person's garden will one day fade; a person may think they have an eternity of pleasure before them, but if they are looking to the flesh for it, it will be only for an hour.