Lent Day 12...Day 182 (1 Samuel 30,31; Proverbs 30; Luke 12)..."How to be Rich!"

Today, in Luke 12, we have a less familiar parable but one with great meaning. We have a teaching to be rich for God. An obedient and generous person can be rich. This means anyone can be rich...toward God. In this economy today, this is a wonderful message. Here is the parable...

And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'

"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '

"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."