Monday October 23, 2017
What if the parable ran like this? “There was a rich man and his land had produced a good harvest. He thought: ‘What shall I do? For, I am short of room to store my harvest.’ So this is what he planned: ‘I will call all my neighbors and share my harvest with them. After all, the harvest is more than what I need or my barns can contain, and there are many people around me who do not have enough and have suffered long and hard. So let me share my good fortune with them, so that we all can rest, eat, drink, and enjoy ourselves.’ But God said to him: ‘Well done, my servant! This very night your life will be taken from you, and you won’t be able to enjoy with your neighbors. But you have done wisely to share your resources with them and thereby store up a good harvest in heaven. Come and celebrate with me in eternity.’”
If the man had done as imagined above, he would have had a happy death and everlasting joy in heaven. The only way to store up riches in heaven is by sharing the riches with the poor on earth.
