But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?'” Luke 12:20
“God wanted us to be dispensers, not lords, of His riches.”
John Chrysostom (347-407) as recounted in On Almsgiving by by Martin Chemnitz (St. Louis: LCMS World Relief and Human Care, 2004) 6.
Sometimes the smallest posts make the biggest splash.
We live in a society that celebrates comfort over contentment and accumulates wealth disobediently rather than dispensing it according to God’s design.
If this post convicts you, change your ways while you have time. Jesus labeled the man a fool who stored up wealth for himself instead of dispensing it.
Not only that, he relieved the fool of his dispensing duties. All that he stored up for himself would be shared without his assistance.
The paradox, or at least what we are learning on our journey, is that obedience does not lead to destitution but rather distribution according to God’s design.
It has been so special to spend a few days with my parents in Florida. They continue to serve as faithful dispensers of the spiritual and material blessings God supplies.