Rich Toward God
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.”
Luke 12:13-21
The sooner we get over the illusion that more
stuff means more peace, happiness, and self-fulfillment, the better off we will be. And
then the more able we will be to find the longed-for peace and happiness – the
true “good life” – that only Jesus can provide. The “good life” is found in the
richness of God.
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