Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions."
Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!"' But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for life to be defended in this year's election.
Our faith is a beautiful thing. Yet, I struggle with its beauty because often people don't want to be "offended" by its beauty. So, I hide it in the barn.
After all, if my faith is in the barn, it's not there to offend other people. Worse yet, what if I'm the one who is offended by its beauty? Would I be humble enough to act upon that change if I found out that this was the case?
Whatever the case may be, I have to remember that there are a lot of hungry people out there looking for the "food" that I have stored up in my barn.
Take care and God Bless.
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