Wesley’s sermon for the devotion today in its full form and a summary.
One of my favorite paintings is Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son, the wikipedia article is well worth a skim. A great visual example of the ‘spirit of adoption’ from the devotional.
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” – C.S. Lewis