WHEN LESS IS MORE

It seems that everybody is wanting to be rich
or richer.  However over many years I have
noticed there seems to be very few really happy
rich people.  They put on a big smile in public,
then go home and commit suicide.  All their
money did not satisfy them.

Jesus Christ tells us of a rich man who had more
than he could use.  He decided to build bigger barns
to store all his "goodies" in:

"But God said to him, 'You fool!  This very night
your soul is required of you; and now who will
own what you have prepared?'  So is the man
who stores up treasure for himself, and is not 
rich toward God."
(Luke 12: 20,21 NASB)

Jesus tells us of another rich man:

"Now there was a rich man, and he habitually
dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living
in splendor every day. --- ... and the rich man
also died and was buried.  In Hades he lifted
up his eyes, being in torment, "
(Luke 16:19,22,23 NASB)

O.K.  so you get rich for yourself and have more
"goodies" that other people.  But that is only for a
few short years here on earth.  What are going to
do when your body dies and the real you goes out
into the forever.  Would it not have been far better
to have just a little material goods but be rich
toward God.

There is a song that express it this way;

"Little is much when God is in it!
Labor not for wealth or fame;
There’s a crown, and you can win it,
If you go in Jesus’ name."

Now I understand why the Psalmist 
could say;

"Better is the little of the righteous

Than the abundance of many wicked."

(Psalms 37:16 NASB)