The area where I live (DFW) is generally pretty affluent. There is a large population of well-educated, highly compensated workers, and each of us spends a decent amount of time thinking about what do with the money that we have earned. Some of us spend it on our families, some of us spend it on ourselves, and some of us just put it in the bank for later. How many of us are thinking past this life, though? How many of us are being strategic about sharing our wealth with others?
Jesus told a parable about a man that had so much that he didn't even have room to store it all. Rather than share the excess that he obviously wouldn't be able to use, he built new storehouses so that he could hoard it all for himself. I think that a lot of us are like that. We carefully guard the things in life that we treasure and we just figure out new ways to keep more stuff to ourselves as we get older. As with the man in the parable, though, the more important thing is to determine what we are storing up in heaven for eternity.
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