Our barns must be bigger (The rich fool, Luke 12:13-21)

Our barns must be bigger (The rich fool, Luke 12:13-21)
Our society tells us that there is something wrong with someone who is content with what they have and is not trying to get more. You should want a bigger house, nicer car, better vacations, and a padded retirement fund and if you do not have them then there is no way you can be happy. Everything in our modern society points to us having bigger, better, and more to be satisfied or you cannot have pleasure in this life. The American dream tells us that by hard work and the sweat of the brow we can achieve anything and own anything we want. This is the trap that the man Jesus describes in our parable fell into, verse 19 says that he looked at his life and said you have worked hard to earn what you have and now it is time to set back and enjoy it. The only problem with this is that the very night he thought he had final obtained enough, he died. Jesus said he was a fool, he worked and labored for earthly treasures that he left behind when he entered eternity. Society tells us we need bigger barns to hold more treasure, but Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:19-21 that earthly treasure will fade and really, we should be laying up eternal heavenly treasure that will never fade, corrupt, or disappear. Because where your treasure is, that is where your heart will be also.
The Kingdom of God is so different from our earthly kingdoms, it does not function around money, time, political power, and status. The currencies that drive the Kingdom of God is love, faith, service, and obedience. Matthew 23:11-12 says that the greatest in His Kingdom will be the ones with a servant’s heart, those who have humbled themselves to love those around them. Hebrews 13:5 says that our satisfaction does come from money or treasure but instead in knowing we already have the greatest treasure of all, A God who will never leave nor forsake us. Perhaps the wisest man ever to live, King Solomon, said that we should be satisfied with what we have instead of always wanting what we do not have. He said it was like chasing the wind, in which you can never catch it. (Ecclesiastes 6:9) Is there anything wrong with desiring nice things for your family? The answer is no, God wants nice things for you and your family. The problem happens when the pursuit of these supersede our pursuit of God and the things of His Kingdom. When we spend more time working towards them than we do working on our relationship with God then there is a problem in our heart. When we are unsatisfied with what we have and unwilling to part with temporary things then we no longer have possessions, we have idols that we are pursuing over the One True God.