What the Bible says about Rich toward God
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Luke 12:13-31 In Luke 12:13-21, a listener in the crowd surrounding Jesus asks Him to instruct his brother to divide the inheritance due to him equitably. Jesus declines, saying that life should not be based on having many possessions. He uses this occasion to teach His disciples that a godly life is more important than material things. To explain this, He tells a parable about a rich man who builds larger and larger barns to store all his crops and goods. Since he had everything he could possibly want or need, the rich man's focus was on living an easy life. God's response is that the man was foolish because, when he died later that night, his goods would do nothing for him. Someone else would inherit and enjoy them. A person whose life is caught up in what he owns is not rich toward God. The Parable of the Rich Fool illustrates Jesus' teaching to guard against every kind of covetousness. Martin G. Collins Parable of the Rich Fool Related Topics: Covetousness | Material Things, Attitude Toward | Materialism | Parable of the Rich Fool | Rich toward God | Riches | Wealth | Wealth, Attitude Toward | Wealth, Desire for | Wealth, Pursuing

Luke 12:21 This phrase "not rich toward God" summarizes human folly and the error of thinking one does not need God. A person who "is not rich toward God" lives to accumulate and enjoy wealth only to die with nothing permanent or eternal to show for his efforts. Godly living—and all that God esteems to be true riches—is eternal. To think of life only in terms of physical things is both foolish and fatal because life is not comprised and enhanced even by abundant material possessions but by spiritual and eternal things (James 2:5). If we place God first rather than the accumulation of wealth, then we will use whatever He allows us to have, no matter how little or how much, to glorify Him (I Corinthians 10:31). Martin G. Collins Parable of the Rich Fool Related Topics: Accumulation of Wealth | Godly Living | Impermanence of Physical Things | Parable of the Rich Fool | Physical and Spiritual Perspectives | Rich toward God | Wealth, Accumulating

 

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