Our culture is full of narcissistic people where greed runs wild and free. There is no such thing as enough. But there is still no satisfaction in people's lives even if they can have all they want. Celebrities and sports stars with all their money and fame try to mask their emptiness with drugs, sex, and crazy stunts to make their name into the media frenzy and still are empty. There is a yearning in the soul that material things cannot heal that hunger. Only accepting the love of Jesus Christ and humbling yourself before Him can a person begin to satisfy that strange yearning of wanting something and yet not knowing what that something is to make a person feel they have a purpose for living.
Luke 12:13-21Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
13 Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 “Friend,” he said to him, “who appointed me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”
16 Then he told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops? 18 I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there. 19 Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’
21 “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
Prayer: O'Father in Heaven, thank you for filling that void in my soul, help me to put my treasures in Heaven, in Jesus name, amen.
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