Luke 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
The rich man in the parable also allowed his wealth to lead him to pride and self-sufficiency by which he forgot to acknowledge God as his Benefactor. This can be observed by the amount of times the words I and my occur in the parable; ten times in all.
Gradually, he came to trust in his riches as a sort of bulwark against any adverse situation that would arise and the more he accumulated, the less he saw his need of God. The Bible also addresses this issue as being one of the snares, attendant to being rich, if one is not very, very careful.
Again, he signally failed to strike the right balance between earthly wealth and eternal riches, and in the process, he finally lost his own soul. Whenever one’s riches and the procurement thereof cause a man to value the temporal more than the spiritual, one’s priorities and the true purposes for living will become inverted.
Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
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