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What is the purpose
of wealth?
Jesus tells a story about a rich landowner
whose harvest yielded more than his storage barns could
hold. He couldn't let his crops rot in the field or give
them away, so he hadto tear down the existing barns and
build new, larger ones (Luke 12:16). Then he could sit back
and relax after everything was stored - "to eat, drink and
be merry. But God said to him, you fool, tonight your soul
will be required. And this hoard of yours, whose will it
be then? So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself
in place of making himself rich in the sight of God" (Luke
12:19-21).
This affluent person's life was only material.
He went from affluence to luxury. He did not stop to think
that perhaps the reason God made him affluent was so he
could pass something on to the less fortunate.
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