Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then He said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
And He told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.’
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
This is how it will be for whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
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Do not store up treasures on earth. I believe most of them time when we store up things, it’s because we don’t fully have our trust in God. We have to make sure that WE are taking care of ourself and determining the outcome. We want control of what happens. Jesus says we don’t have that control. Our life is but a vapor…here today and gone tomorrow. Why would we spend our time storing up things that we can’t have forever when we could be storing up eternal things in our life that will last for all of eternity? It’s time some of us acknowledge we need to hand over control to God. Where can your storage be found?
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