Category:The Rich Fool

THE RICH FOOL

There was a certain rich man who owned much land. His fields and vineyards were so productive that when the time of harvest came, he had not room enough to store his corn and fruits. So after much thought he said, "This will I do. I will pull down my barns and build greater ones, and there will I store all my fruits and my goods. Then I can say to myself, 'I have a great store of goods laid up, enough for many years; now I can take my ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'"

But God said unto him, "You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be which you have hoarded?"

Jesus says it shall be so with all those who set their minds upon storing up riches in this world, rather than laying up treasures in Heaven by pleasing God and working in His service. Death will come when they least expect it, and they will have to leave all their earthly riches and go where no treasure has been laid up for them.

Jesus said to His disciples, "Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on; for the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you have need of these things. But rather seek ye the Kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, or moth corrupts."