One’s Life Does Not Consist
In The Abundance
Of Possessions
Someone in the crowd said to him,
“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he
said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he
said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for
one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Then he told them
a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to
himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ Then he
said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and
there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul,
you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink,
be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being
demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So it
is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward
God.”
Where do you have your eyes? Things here on earth, or things in heaven? Get your mind
right! We lose our way when money becomes the driving purpose of our lives.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that it is wrong to have money or the things
that money can buy. However, we should not accumulate things that will not pass
with us into eternity. Get your priorities straight.
Treasures in
heaven are laid up as treasures on earth are laid down.
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