A certain lord kept a fool or jester in the house as great men did in olden times for their amusement. This lord gave a staff to his fool and told him to keep it until he met a greater fool than himself, and if he met such a person, a greater fool, he should give him the staff.
Not many years later, the lord fell sick. His fool came to see him and was told of the lord’s illness. The fool asked, “Whither wilt thou go?” “On a long journey,” said the lord. “And when wilt thou come back again,” asked the fool, “within a month?” “No,” said the master. “Within a year?” asked the fool. “No, never,” responded the master. “And what provisions hast thou made for thy long journey?” asked the fool. “None at all,” replied the master.
“Thou meanest thou art dying, going way forever,” said the fool, “and thou hast made no provisions before thy departure? No plans, no nothing? Here, take my staff for I am not guilty of any folly as that. Thou art a greater fool than I am.”
Are you like the master, a fool, because you have not planned for that last journey? Harsh though it sounds, that is the statement in our Gospel lesson for this week. It speaks about being ready for the coming of Christ. It speaks of our Hope.
As Paul wrote to the Romans, “…we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. …we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience” (Romans 8:22-25).
Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote a book entitled “Sabbatical Journeys,” in which he wrote about some friends of his who were trapeze artists, called the Flying Roudellas. They told Nouwen that there is a special relationship between the flyer and catcher on the trapeze. This relationship is governed by important rules, such as “The flyer is the one who lets go, and the catcher is the one who catches.” As the flyer swings on the trapeze high above the crowd, the moment comes when he must let go. He flings his body out in mid-air. His job is to keep flying and wait for the strong hands of the catcher to take hold of him at just the right moment. One of the Flying Roudellas told Nouwen, “The flyer must never try to catch the catcher.” The flyer’s job is to wait in absolute trust. The catcher will catch him, but he must wait.
Nouwen said, “Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.” Waiting is not a static state, it is a time when God is working behind the scenes, and the primary focus of his work is on us. I like Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase of Romans 8:24, “Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. God is creating his life within us, and we must wait for it to come to full term.”
The second point is we are to wait expectantly. Gary Preston tells a story in his book “Character Forged from Conflict,” that illustrates how we are to wait. He writes: “Back when the telegraph was the fastest means of long-distance communication, there was a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a young man who applied for a job as a Morse code operator. Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the address that was listed. When he arrived, he entered a large noisy office. In the background a telegraph clicked away. A sign on the receptionist’s counter instructed the job applicants to fill out a form and wait until they were summoned to enter the inner office. The young man completed the form and sat down with several other waiting applicants. After a few minutes, the young man stood up, crossed the room to the door of the inner office, and walked right in. Naturally the other applicants perked up, wondering what was going on. Why had this man been so bold? They muttered among themselves that they hadn’t heard any summons yet. They took more than a little satisfaction in assuming the young man who went into the office would be reprimanded for his presumption and summarily disqualified for the job. Within a few minutes the young man emerged from the inner office escorted by the interviewer, who announced to the other applicants, ‘Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming, but the job has been filled by this young man.’ The other applicants began grumbling to each other, and then one spoke up, ‘Wait a minute! I don’t understand. He was the last one to come in, and we never even got a chance to be interviewed. Yet he got the job. That’s not fair.’ The employer replied, ‘All the time you’ve been sitting here, the telegraph has been ticking out this message in Morse code: “If you understand this message, then come right in. The job is yours.” None of you heard it or understood it. This young man did. So the job is his.’”
The young man got the job because he was not just waiting – all the others were waiting – but he was waiting expectantly. We, you and I, are all sitting in the waiting room. But it is how we wait, and what we do with the waiting, that is important. Waiting does not mean just sitting down and doing nothing. You have to be watching and looking for God to fulfill His promise. You have to believe He is going to do it. We could miss what He is doing because we are just waiting without expecting God to really come through.
Finally, Jesus is reminding us that we are accountable to Him for the faith lives which we live. Our Lord challenges us to be faithful at all times as we walk our journey of trusting in Him. Our faith is not something which we turn on and off, but something which is always prevalent in our lives. Jesus wants us to be accountable in our faithfulness, a faithfulness based on the promises of God as we find them in the Bible and we are asked to have the same kind of reliance. The Gospel message is essentially a promise for our lives in which we are asked to believe.
It is like the following: Far away in a desert stands a water pump in the sand. You are alone, your canteen is empty and you come upon that pump. Tied to it is a hand written sign put there by some pilgrim. The sign reads, “I have buried a bottle of water to prime the pump. Don’t drink any of it. Pour in half of it to wet the leather. Wait, and then pour in the rest. Then pump. The well has never run dry, but the pump must be primed to bring the water up. Have faith, believe. When you are through drawing the water, fill the bottle and bury it in the sand for the next traveler.”
Having come upon this pump in the desert with this sign and being out of water, what would you do??? Will you dig up the water bottle and drink from it?? Or will you believe and believing, dare to pour that water, every drop of it into the old ‘trusty’ pump?? Because you trust, you take a risk, both for yourself and for the next person who will pass that way. What will you do???
Will you be faithful in the written promises of God? God has promised through Christ to care for us, to redeem us, to provide for us in His unique way. Faithfulness calls us to rely on God’s promises for our lives not ours. Faith is trust. Faith is trusting in God’s promises each day, because we are accountable for our faithfulness at all times when we need it and when we don’t. Confidence in God’s promises is a way of life. We are held accountable for the way we live and because we believe and trust we will want to live a faithful life.
Let me close with another story. A man owned a little grocery store. It was the week before Christmas, when a tired-looking woman came in and asked for enough food to make a Christmas dinner for her small family. The grocer asked her how much she could spend. “My husband did not come back; he was killed in the War and I have nothing to offer but a little prayer,” she answered.
The grocer was not very sentimental or religious, so he said half mockingly, “Write it on paper and I’ll weigh it.” To his surprise, the woman took a piece of paper from the pocket of her dress and handed it to the man saying, “I wrote it during the night while watching over my sick baby.”
The grocer took the paper before he could recover from his surprise and, because other customers were watching and had heard his remarks, he placed the unread prayer on the weight side of his old-fashioned scales. Then he began to pile food on the other side, but to his amazement, the scale would not go down.
He became angry and flustered and finally said, “Well, that’s all the scale will hold. Here’s a bag, you’ll have to put it in yourself. I’m busy.” With trembling hands, the woman filled the bag and through moist eyes expressed her gratitude and departed.
When the store was empty of customers, the grocer examined the scales. They were broken and they had become broken just in time for God to answer the woman’s prayer. As the years passed, the grocer wondered about the incident. Why did the woman come at that particular time? Why had she already written the prayer in such a way as to confuse him so that he did not examine the scales.
Years went by and the grocer never saw the woman again. Yet he remembered her more than any of his customers. He came to treasure the slip of paper upon which the woman’s prayer had been written – simple words, but from a heart of faith. They said, “Please, Lord, give us this day our daily bread.”
The lady’s written prayer was a great act of faithfulness. She believed God would provide and He was true. She didn’t know exactly how God would do it, however, the unique circumstances of the story with the scales being broken, people in the store, and the frustration of the grocer all lead to God’s way of providing for this young mother.
The Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. But we are called to live in the present, waiting in hope, waiting expectantly, and waiting faithfully as He has called us to serve with that which has been gifted us.
Amen.
August 12, 2009
August 3, 2009
July 29, 2009 + “Where Is Your Investment Account?” (Luke 12:13-21) + Hayward Fong
Did you know you can purchase almost anything on eBay these days? About a year ago an Australian man sold his complete life – his home, his possessions, his job and his friends – the bidding reached L 400,000. About the same time a 20 year old student in the USA put his ‘soul’ up for sale on eBay. The bidding went to $400 before eBay removed the ad. What value would you place on your life this morning? If a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck when you arrive home today, what would you grab? How do you value a life? How do you measure what your life is worth? In buying life insurance, you think of the needs of those you leave behind, your family, meaningful organizations in your life, etc.
To the classical Greek world the division between soul and body was commonly accepted, as it is today. To the Hebrew mind, and to the Christian mind, such a division was, and is, unthinkable. For the Judeo-Christian mind it is impossible to separate the soul from the body. The Hebrew word ‘nepes’- the self, was a whole person, indivisible in parts and it is that understanding that we must keep in mind as we turn to this parable.
If we go back to the beginning of this Chapter, you will find that Jesus is teaching a crowd of many thousands. From the crowd a voice is raised above the others and asks the question of verse 13. ‘Teacher’ is Luke’s word for ‘Rabbi’ and the man in the crowd assumes he is addressing a legal expert. He asks Jesus a question concerning inheritance. Notice what he does not say in his question. He does not say that he and his brother are quarrelling over money and that he does not want this to get out of hand and destroy their relationship; therefore for the sake of their brotherly relationship would Jesus intervene and reconcile them. On the contrary, he says something like this, “Rabbi, my brother is in the wrong and therefore he should give me my rights.”
The words of this man, the demands that he makes, indicate that he and his brother had already been estranged because of the issue. The assumption behind the request is clear. The father had died without leaving a will or instructions, so according to the law of the time, the estate could not be divided until the older brother agreed. The fact that this man wants his inheritance would lead us to conclude that he was a younger brother. The petitioner had already decided what would be a just outcome of his request. But he doesn’t know Jesus!
In verse 14, Jesus addresses the questioner as ‘Man’ which was a form of address which denotes displeasure in the Middle East. He refuses to be judge between these two men and proceeds to explain why. He uses the question as a teaching opportunity, not just for the benefit of the man who had asked the question but for all who would hear.
Verse 15 gives us a clear warning about the insatiable desires of possessions. Possessions are attached to a deep, often irrational fear, that one day we will not have enough. There is always that gnawing fear that one day it will all be gone and it is never satisfied. Why, because the insecurity is never dealt with. Jesus warns the man, and us, that the measure of life is more than possessions. The amount that you have is no measure of the value of your life. Note how Jesus describes this desire for possessions – ‘greed.’ Greed is never satisfied; it never has enough. Jesus then moves on to tell them this parable, a strange and challenging story, to illustrate this general point.
Many of us may find this parable uncomfortable because, in America at least, we are considered wise if we hold onto our surplus and lay it up for the ‘rainy day.’ This is called ‘financial planning.’ The other tendency is to use our surplus to acquire more extravagant consumer goods. This could be called ‘upgrading.’ The ‘rich man’ in the parable, who could count up his amassed fortune and sit back and relax, living well off the interest, is the model for American retirement. Jesus shows us this ‘rich man’ in a very different way that convicts us all.
The man in this parable is already rich. He had what he needed for daily life and more than a little bit more. He did not work any harder for this bumper harvest that had arrived this year. It was not by the sweat of his brow or the toil of his labors that his fields yielded more than any other year. But listen to what he says in vs. 17-19. Let me read them again for you. “… and he thought to himself, ‘what shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And 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; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’”
Did you notice that at the very beginning, ‘he thought to himself’? This would have come as a shock to those listening to Jesus that day. In the Middle East people make important decisions after long discussions with their friends. Everybody’s business is everybody’s business in such village life. Sometimes even trivial decisions are only made after discussion with family and friends; but if appears from Jesus’ account that this man had no friends. The literal translation as noted by commentators is that ‘he dialogued with himself.’ What a sad scene is depicted in those words – he had riches but he was alone. Isaiah 5:8 warned about the dangers of wealth – this man had paid no heed to the warning and was alone, with no one to discuss what he should do with this bumper harvest. How sad!
“What shall I do (with my crop)?” This man believes that this harvest is his. He shows absolutely no awareness that this harvest is a gift from God. He has a plan, but notice how self-centered it all is. He made no mention of the effort of the farm hands. It is all ‘I, I, I along with my, my, my - my crops, my bars, my grain, my goods, my soul.
It has been said that Jesus came to banish the words “I” and “mine” from life and to substitute “we” and “ours.” It is certainly significant that in the Lord’s Prayer the first person singular never appears; it is always the first person plural. Self is banished and man is taught to think of himself as one of a community of brothers and sisters.
The ancient monks of the Middle East may have made many mistakes in their outlook on life, but they had one custom worthy of emulation. It was laid down that no monk might ever speak of “my” book, “my” pen, “my” cell, and to use the word was regarded as a fault demanding rebuke and discipline.
This man remembered the first part of Ecclesiastes 8:15 to eat, drink, and be merry, but he failed to heed or chose to ignore the latter part of the verse – ‘it is God who gives the days of life to man.’ This man believed that a man made in the image of God can be ultimately satisfied with eating, drinking and being merry. What a fool he is? One of Lucy’ favorite hymns is formed with words from Psalm 42:1-2, ‘the soul of man thirsts for God just as the soul of a deer thirsts for water.’ St. Augustine stated, ‘my soul is restless till it finds its rest in thee.’ This rich man believed his soul would find rest, satisfaction, in the storing of the abundance of his wealth in bigger barns.
His plan is not God’s plan. God announces that this man’s soul is forfeited that very night and the goods that he was planning to store, and satisfy his soul with, would be left for someone else to enjoy. A commentary notes that in the Greek, there is a subtle play on words. The man, following the teaching of Ecclesiastes, plans to ‘make merry’ or ‘rejoice’ which is the Greek word ‘euphraino’ (from which we get the word euphoria), but God called him ‘aphron’- they sound almost identical when spoken. He thought he would ‘rejoice’ but God said he was a ‘fool.’ He learned, too late, that his soul is not his, but a gift from God. In fact the language used by Jesus here denotes the repayment of a loan. His soul was not his, but God’s and God has called it in. The question now becomes, who will inherit the man’s wealth? We turn again to the Book of Ecclesiastes (2:18-19), “I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me; and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.” In this parable God reminds this rich man and us of this other gem of wisdom.
It may well be said that the most dangerous word is the word, “tomorrow.” It may be a grim thought but a necessary one. We have no bond on time. No one knows if tomorrow will ever come. There is an old story of three apprentice devils that were coming from hell to earth to serve their time. They were telling Satan before they left what they proposed to do. The first said, “I will tell men that there is no God.” “That,” Satan said, “will not do because in their hearts they know there is.” The second said, “I will tell them that there is no hell.” That,” Satan said, “is still more hopeless for even in life they have experienced the remorse of hell.” The third said, I will tell them that there is no hurry.” “Go,” said Satan, “tell them that and you will ruin them by the millions.”
The rich fool forgot time. It is said that Alexander the Great kept a little model of a skeleton on the table before him to remind him that, even at the happiest, time was short and death must come. It is a thing that all of us must remember, not simply as a grim and frightening thing, but as a challenge to prepare ourselves for taking a step to a greater work and a higher world and a life in the presence of God.
Jesus concludes this parable with another general principle. The young man had come demanding his share of the wealth of his father but Jesus turns his attention to his wealth with God. Whether the inheritance was under the control of his brother or them both, ultimately it was under the control of God. Ultimately it belonged to God and was on loan to them.
You know it would be easy for us all to dismiss this parable. You may say to me, “Hayward, I’m not rich like this man. I’m not about to knock down barns and build bigger ones. I have no bumper crops this year or for that matter any year. And haven’t you heard of the credit crunch? Get real, Hayward!”
If you have money in the bank, money in your purse and you have spare change in the dish at home, then at this moment you are among the wealthiest 8% of the world’s population. If you went to school while growing up and learned to read, you’re better off than 2 billion people in today’s world. If you have food at home, have shelter, a bed to sleep on, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’s population.
I could continue with these comparisons, but what I want to do is leave these thoughts for you to ponder: If God demanded your soul of you right now, where would your wealth/treasure be stored? Are you the blessed who has stored up treasure in heaven? Or are you the ‘rich fool’ before God whose material possessions are keeping you off the road to heaven? God will demand an accounting from each of us, but we don’t know when He will call in His chips. This young man came asking about material wealth and Jesus turned his eyes to his eternal wealth. Where is your investment account?
Amen.
To the classical Greek world the division between soul and body was commonly accepted, as it is today. To the Hebrew mind, and to the Christian mind, such a division was, and is, unthinkable. For the Judeo-Christian mind it is impossible to separate the soul from the body. The Hebrew word ‘nepes’- the self, was a whole person, indivisible in parts and it is that understanding that we must keep in mind as we turn to this parable.
If we go back to the beginning of this Chapter, you will find that Jesus is teaching a crowd of many thousands. From the crowd a voice is raised above the others and asks the question of verse 13. ‘Teacher’ is Luke’s word for ‘Rabbi’ and the man in the crowd assumes he is addressing a legal expert. He asks Jesus a question concerning inheritance. Notice what he does not say in his question. He does not say that he and his brother are quarrelling over money and that he does not want this to get out of hand and destroy their relationship; therefore for the sake of their brotherly relationship would Jesus intervene and reconcile them. On the contrary, he says something like this, “Rabbi, my brother is in the wrong and therefore he should give me my rights.”
The words of this man, the demands that he makes, indicate that he and his brother had already been estranged because of the issue. The assumption behind the request is clear. The father had died without leaving a will or instructions, so according to the law of the time, the estate could not be divided until the older brother agreed. The fact that this man wants his inheritance would lead us to conclude that he was a younger brother. The petitioner had already decided what would be a just outcome of his request. But he doesn’t know Jesus!
In verse 14, Jesus addresses the questioner as ‘Man’ which was a form of address which denotes displeasure in the Middle East. He refuses to be judge between these two men and proceeds to explain why. He uses the question as a teaching opportunity, not just for the benefit of the man who had asked the question but for all who would hear.
Verse 15 gives us a clear warning about the insatiable desires of possessions. Possessions are attached to a deep, often irrational fear, that one day we will not have enough. There is always that gnawing fear that one day it will all be gone and it is never satisfied. Why, because the insecurity is never dealt with. Jesus warns the man, and us, that the measure of life is more than possessions. The amount that you have is no measure of the value of your life. Note how Jesus describes this desire for possessions – ‘greed.’ Greed is never satisfied; it never has enough. Jesus then moves on to tell them this parable, a strange and challenging story, to illustrate this general point.
Many of us may find this parable uncomfortable because, in America at least, we are considered wise if we hold onto our surplus and lay it up for the ‘rainy day.’ This is called ‘financial planning.’ The other tendency is to use our surplus to acquire more extravagant consumer goods. This could be called ‘upgrading.’ The ‘rich man’ in the parable, who could count up his amassed fortune and sit back and relax, living well off the interest, is the model for American retirement. Jesus shows us this ‘rich man’ in a very different way that convicts us all.
The man in this parable is already rich. He had what he needed for daily life and more than a little bit more. He did not work any harder for this bumper harvest that had arrived this year. It was not by the sweat of his brow or the toil of his labors that his fields yielded more than any other year. But listen to what he says in vs. 17-19. Let me read them again for you. “… and he thought to himself, ‘what shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And 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; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’”
Did you notice that at the very beginning, ‘he thought to himself’? This would have come as a shock to those listening to Jesus that day. In the Middle East people make important decisions after long discussions with their friends. Everybody’s business is everybody’s business in such village life. Sometimes even trivial decisions are only made after discussion with family and friends; but if appears from Jesus’ account that this man had no friends. The literal translation as noted by commentators is that ‘he dialogued with himself.’ What a sad scene is depicted in those words – he had riches but he was alone. Isaiah 5:8 warned about the dangers of wealth – this man had paid no heed to the warning and was alone, with no one to discuss what he should do with this bumper harvest. How sad!
“What shall I do (with my crop)?” This man believes that this harvest is his. He shows absolutely no awareness that this harvest is a gift from God. He has a plan, but notice how self-centered it all is. He made no mention of the effort of the farm hands. It is all ‘I, I, I along with my, my, my - my crops, my bars, my grain, my goods, my soul.
It has been said that Jesus came to banish the words “I” and “mine” from life and to substitute “we” and “ours.” It is certainly significant that in the Lord’s Prayer the first person singular never appears; it is always the first person plural. Self is banished and man is taught to think of himself as one of a community of brothers and sisters.
The ancient monks of the Middle East may have made many mistakes in their outlook on life, but they had one custom worthy of emulation. It was laid down that no monk might ever speak of “my” book, “my” pen, “my” cell, and to use the word was regarded as a fault demanding rebuke and discipline.
This man remembered the first part of Ecclesiastes 8:15 to eat, drink, and be merry, but he failed to heed or chose to ignore the latter part of the verse – ‘it is God who gives the days of life to man.’ This man believed that a man made in the image of God can be ultimately satisfied with eating, drinking and being merry. What a fool he is? One of Lucy’ favorite hymns is formed with words from Psalm 42:1-2, ‘the soul of man thirsts for God just as the soul of a deer thirsts for water.’ St. Augustine stated, ‘my soul is restless till it finds its rest in thee.’ This rich man believed his soul would find rest, satisfaction, in the storing of the abundance of his wealth in bigger barns.
His plan is not God’s plan. God announces that this man’s soul is forfeited that very night and the goods that he was planning to store, and satisfy his soul with, would be left for someone else to enjoy. A commentary notes that in the Greek, there is a subtle play on words. The man, following the teaching of Ecclesiastes, plans to ‘make merry’ or ‘rejoice’ which is the Greek word ‘euphraino’ (from which we get the word euphoria), but God called him ‘aphron’- they sound almost identical when spoken. He thought he would ‘rejoice’ but God said he was a ‘fool.’ He learned, too late, that his soul is not his, but a gift from God. In fact the language used by Jesus here denotes the repayment of a loan. His soul was not his, but God’s and God has called it in. The question now becomes, who will inherit the man’s wealth? We turn again to the Book of Ecclesiastes (2:18-19), “I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me; and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.” In this parable God reminds this rich man and us of this other gem of wisdom.
It may well be said that the most dangerous word is the word, “tomorrow.” It may be a grim thought but a necessary one. We have no bond on time. No one knows if tomorrow will ever come. There is an old story of three apprentice devils that were coming from hell to earth to serve their time. They were telling Satan before they left what they proposed to do. The first said, “I will tell men that there is no God.” “That,” Satan said, “will not do because in their hearts they know there is.” The second said, “I will tell them that there is no hell.” That,” Satan said, “is still more hopeless for even in life they have experienced the remorse of hell.” The third said, I will tell them that there is no hurry.” “Go,” said Satan, “tell them that and you will ruin them by the millions.”
The rich fool forgot time. It is said that Alexander the Great kept a little model of a skeleton on the table before him to remind him that, even at the happiest, time was short and death must come. It is a thing that all of us must remember, not simply as a grim and frightening thing, but as a challenge to prepare ourselves for taking a step to a greater work and a higher world and a life in the presence of God.
Jesus concludes this parable with another general principle. The young man had come demanding his share of the wealth of his father but Jesus turns his attention to his wealth with God. Whether the inheritance was under the control of his brother or them both, ultimately it was under the control of God. Ultimately it belonged to God and was on loan to them.
You know it would be easy for us all to dismiss this parable. You may say to me, “Hayward, I’m not rich like this man. I’m not about to knock down barns and build bigger ones. I have no bumper crops this year or for that matter any year. And haven’t you heard of the credit crunch? Get real, Hayward!”
If you have money in the bank, money in your purse and you have spare change in the dish at home, then at this moment you are among the wealthiest 8% of the world’s population. If you went to school while growing up and learned to read, you’re better off than 2 billion people in today’s world. If you have food at home, have shelter, a bed to sleep on, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’s population.
I could continue with these comparisons, but what I want to do is leave these thoughts for you to ponder: If God demanded your soul of you right now, where would your wealth/treasure be stored? Are you the blessed who has stored up treasure in heaven? Or are you the ‘rich fool’ before God whose material possessions are keeping you off the road to heaven? God will demand an accounting from each of us, but we don’t know when He will call in His chips. This young man came asking about material wealth and Jesus turned his eyes to his eternal wealth. Where is your investment account?
Amen.
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