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**Daily Devotional**
I watch the fluctuations of the stock market and reflect on the effects of fear and greed. A character in a 1980s movie had this philosophy: ?Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right! Greed works! . . . Greed [will] save . . . the USA!? What foolish thinking!
I think of that occasion when a man asked Jesus to serve as an arbiter and make his brother share their inheritance. Jesus refused the request but went on to do the man a greater kindness. He pointed out the motive behind the man?s request and its consequences: ?Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one?s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses? (Luke 12:15).
Then Jesus told a parable about a man who harvested a bumper crop and began to make plans to increase and enjoy his riches. He concluded: ?God said to him, ?Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?? So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God? (vv.20-21).
The trouble with greed is that ultimately our goods go. But worse?we go. Better to store up treasure in heaven, invest in spiritual riches, and become ?rich toward God.? ? David H. Roper
The treasures of earth do not last,
But God has prepared us a place
Where someday with Him we will dwell,
Enjoying the riches of grace. ?Branon
Our real wealth is what we invest for eternity.