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How to be Rich
Would you rather always lose or never play?
Would you rather always wear earmuffs or a nose plug?
Would you rather always win pie-eating contests or always win wheelbarrow races?
Would you rather be a dog named Killer or a cat named Fluffy?
Would you rather be stranded on an island alone or with someone you hate?
Would you rather meet an alien visitor or travel to outer space?
Would you rather have one wish granted today or three wishes granted in 10 years?
Would you rather visit the Doctor or the Dentist?
Would you rather always have to say everything on your mind or never speak again?
What you rather be super wealthy or completely content?
But whenever we hear, “What makes someone rich?”
Our first thought is to go to money or stuff.
Having to much, not having enough, getting rid of stuff, letting stuff become too important, loving my stuff more than people, wanting stuff more than God.
There a lot of scenarios like this and what drives them all is let’s call it a quest seeing as how the Hobbit is coming out soon.
It is a quest for treasure.
Growing up I always dreamed that I would find buried treasure but for some reason in my back yard I only ever found railroad spikes which didn’t make sense because our house was 5 kilometers away from a railway track.
In our culture with our emphasis on planning for retirement.
That has become one of the treasures.
For each of us it is a different number.
The number usual is you need to save up enough so that you can retire on the income you currently have now.
That is what we are inundated with.
That is what forms much of our planning.
For my family that won’t be a reality not because it isn’t doable but because we have made some decisions now that will keep that from happening.
I’m not sure what that number is but I have a financial advisor who is patient with me and understanding of how we are choosing to live and is working with us.
But I think I would be happy with a million or so dollars.
If I can be completely honest.
I think that would make me feel safe moving forward.
But I don’t and there is no way that that is going to happen so I have smaller treasures.
Smaller ideas of what it means to be rich.
It is my Fischer space pen.
Can write under water and in the vacuum of space.
I have a few other trinkets that I don’t need and that have used up resources that could have been used elsewhere.
But I wanted them.
But when I wake up in the middle of the night worried or think about my kids and where they might be I don’t pull out this pen and ask it to bring me comfort.
I don’t hold it like a security blanket because I know it has no effect on the world around me but I wanted it.
I guess I would call it greed.
A one dollars paper mate pen would have been fine but I wanted this one.
So I spent $25.00 to get it a few years ago.
Does it bring me comfort, No. Does it make me happy, not really although it was cool to write under water.
I can’t be rich in the North American sense but I have my little treasures to give me a sense of having more.
But really they mean nothing to me and it is one of the reasons I’m not really attached to my stuff.
Because I know that basing my life on the wealth that this life gives isn’t really wealth.
What do you think makes you rich?
Your car
Your family
Your house
Your investment portfolio
Now what helps you sleep at night?
What gives you peace of mind?
If it is money.
Do you think you are looking far enough ahead?
If it is family, same question.
What if there was something or someone that gave us a rich life that did not come to an end?
This parable isn’t about the money.
Life isn’t about the money.
Your job isn’t about the money.
But so often that is what we think it all comes down to.
It is how we evaluate what we can do next; it is what we look at when it comes to paying the bills.
It can take up a lot of our time, energy and emotion.
This parable isn’t about the money.
Life isn’t about the money.
Your job isn’t about the money.
But so often that is what we think it all comes down to.
It is how we evaluate what we can do next; it is what we look at when it comes to paying the bills.
It can take up a lot of our time, energy and emotion.
(NIV)
Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone just interrupted a teaching session or teaching time?
Maybe a Sunday morning here.
Or in a class room setting.
That is what is happening in this situation.
Jesus like the other gospels record sometimes spoke in front of thousands of people at one time.
And that what was happening in the passage we are looking at today, .
Do you think people who follow God can be afraid?
Yes we can?
And that was part of the context that brought up a fellow had with Jesus.
Just prior to this Jesus warning his followers with this crowd listening in what they could expect as his followers.
Basically he told them not to fear the people who could hurt and kill them because they followed Jesus because they were worth a lot to him and that he would through God’s Spirit give them the strength wisdom to live well.
Well a guy in the crowd was listening to all this and may have begun to go to that panic place.
That dark place where the fear of death or hurt comes from.
And because of where his heart was at he thought he would go fo what he thought would provide him with what he needed.
(NIV)
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 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.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do?
I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “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.
19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years.
Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”
’ 20 “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?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Being rich in the world ≠ being rich toward God.
In this situation Jesus would have been considered a rabbi, a teacher, someone who could settle issues of the law.
And that was part of the role of religious leaders and teachers in that time.
They would have people bring issues to them to help in interpreting how the law would speak to that issue.
In public like this it was important though that what was brought to a large crowd was something that would be beneficial for the crowd to hear.
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