You Fool!

Zechariah 4; Zechariah 5; Zechariah 6; Luke 12

Scripture

Luke 12:14-21 "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; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 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 all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things 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 with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."

Observation

New car, new house, new clothes, it is easy to get caught up in accumulating stuff, but none of it satisfies. We don’t have to really be rich to be like this rich man in this story. All we have to do is have a heart like his. Realizing that what we are able to store up in Heaven is a lot more important than the stuff that we are accumulating down here is a challenge for all of us. Jesus says to sell your stuff, get rid of it so it doesn’t own you. I talked to a friend that is very wealthy and he told me that a person doesn’t own possessions they own him. It is so true. The more stuff you have here on earth the harder it is to concentrate on God’s Kingdom.


Application

Today I will examine my heart and see what possessions are way too important to me.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me to be content with the possessions that we have and help me to be more concerned about your kingdom and less concerned about the “wants” of my life. Thank you for providing so much for my family and me. We are truly blessed.



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