![]() ![]() In our culture, we might easily substitute builder or software producer or real estate agent for farmer. This precipitates the parable of the rich farmer whose rising stores of grain prompt him to build bigger and bigger barns (12:16–20). ![]() Perhaps the person with the most toys does not win after all. Not only does Jesus insist he did not come to be an arbiter of such minor matters (12:14), he warns, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (12:15). For this individual, a share of the inheritance was more important than a godly relationship with his brother. From Jesus’s perspective, it did not matter, for a more fundamental issue was at stake. In Luke 12:13–21, Jesus is confronted by someone who begs him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” We do not know whether this individual had a just complaint or not. Yet in a materialistic culture, it is horrifying to begin to recognize just how endemic greed is, how it seeps into all kinds of priorities and relationships. A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during our seventy years in this life will not seem too terribly important. ![]() You’ve seen the bumper sticker that says, “The person with the most toys wins.” Wins what? The person with the most toys takes out of this life exactly what everyone else does.
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