Riches

Riches

“Then he (Jesus) 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.”
                                                                                                                                        Luke 12:15-21.
Let me make it clear there is nothing wrong with being rich. However if your riches or your pursuit of wealth become your whole life and God is left out of the picture, ultimately you will lose it all.
Ultimately we all circum to the ultimate statistic that everyone that has ever been born dies.
Then the wealth and possessions we acquire in this life will be divided between others.
The writer of Ecclesiastes states,
        “To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” 
                                                              Ecclesiastes 2:26.
A life without God is meaningless.
If all there is in this world is what we can see, feel and hear then what use is life? There has to be more.
Atheist tell us there is no God I cannot believe that.
Peter John Kreeft states,
“Atheism treats people cheaply. Also, it robs death of meaning, and if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? Atheism cheapens everything it touches, look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
And in the end, when the atheist dies and encounters God instead of nothingness he had predicted he’ll recognize that atheism was a cheap answer because it refused the only thing that’s not cheap the God of infinite value”
                                                   Peter John Kreeft ph.d 
The writer of Ecclesiastes gets it right when he says,
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole  duty  of man. 
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.
When God created man He gave him a freewill. In order to be truly free to choose God even gave man the option of believing in Him or not.
That decision is yours to make. If God does not exist you have nothing to fear with respect to what you do.
However if God exists then you have a lot to fear. For God will one day judge all people everywhere.
Please think about it.