Monday, 22nd October

Luke 12:13–21

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher,
tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him,
“Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them,
“Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does
not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Then he told them a parable: “The
land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, ‘What should
I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ Then 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; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You
fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you
have prepared, whose will they be?’ So it is with those who store up treasures
for themselves but are not rich toward God.”

 

Reflection

 

•      How
do I perceive fair and justice?

•      God enables me to amass possessions,
but then can I share them?