One of the crowd said, “Teacher,
tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
But Jesus said to him, “Man,
who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” He said to the people, “Beware!
Keep yourselves from greed, for life doesn’t consist in the abundance of possessions.”
He told them a parable: “The
ground of a rich man produced abundantly. He thought to himself, ‘What
will I do? I don’t have room to store my crops!’ Then he decided, ‘This is
what I’ll do. I’ll pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will
store all my grain and my goods. I will tell my soul, “You have many goods
laid up for years to come. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
“But God said to him, ‘You fool!
Tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose
will they be?’ So it is with those who lay up treasure for themselves, and
are not rich toward God.”
Reflections
The saying of Jesus, “Life
does not consist in the abundance of possessions,” is as true now as it was in
his day, and yet many Christians show no evidence of having gotten the message.
Who do you know who has consciously chosen to live a simple life based on
lasting values? What would need to change in your life for you to live more
simply?
Prayer: Set me on the right
track, Lord, when I am tempted to pursue what promises much and delivers little.
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