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I remember when I was younger hearing the story of Howard Hughes, one of the richest men of his day. He was a test pilot, an engineer, and a Hollywood heavyweight. He had everything anyone could ever want. Yet at the end of his life, he became a shell of a man, isolating himself in hotel rooms, allowing his fingernails and beard to grow long, watching the same movie over and over again, finally dying of kidney failure in 1976.
So many of us in the Western world aspire for wealth and possessions. Yet Jesus warns us of the dangers of that mindset in this parable. After all this man did to acquire more and more, he finally got what he wanted only to realize that he would die that night, without having done any lasting good in his life. Do we really want to make that same mistake?
So many of us in the Western world aspire for wealth and possessions. Yet Jesus warns us of the dangers of that mindset in this parable. After all this man did to acquire more and more, he finally got what he wanted only to realize that he would die that night, without having done any lasting good in his life. Do we really want to make that same mistake?
