I don't know what your career goals are. I'm sure many of them are admirable. In many ways our American culture tells us to get rich, own property, grow your property, and retire well and early. In my devotions this morning I was reading in Luke 12:13-21 Jesus talks directly to us and our American culture. I honestly don't know what you do with the following verses. I am not going to make any comment but let scripture speak for itself. Read it. Apply it.
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."14Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" 15Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
16And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'
18"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '
20"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
21"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
Confront it. Don't ignore this. How many of us set out to make enough money to retire on? Jesus calls us a fool. Not cool. I am wrestling with this. Can you follow Jesus in this way?
I was talking about this with my friend Josh Conn and he blogged in greater detail about what this means for our culture: http://www.joshconn.com/2009/12/10/titans-3-get-old-get-rich-retire/
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