The Rich Fool
Then he told them a parable: The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.
Luke 12:16-21
A man in the crowd asked Jesus to referee an inheritance dispute. Jesus declined the case and diagnosed the disease instead: beware of covetousness.
Count the pronouns: my fruits, my barns, my goods, my soul. The man's world had a population of one, and God appears in the story only to end it. Wealth is not the sin. Being rich toward yourself alone is.
Make your abundance flow outward before it piles upward. Whatever you are tempted to build a bigger barn for, ask first who you could bless with it, because tonight is promised to no one.