“You fool!” said Jesus. “This very night your life is being demanded of you and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? So it is with those who store up treasures toward themselves but are not rich toward God,” begins Barbara Lundblad, Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching Emerita at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a retired minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Today’s passage is Luke 12:13-21, the parable of the Rich Fool. “Why does Jesus even need to tell this parable?” wonders Lundblad. The ‘rich fool’ says, “What should I do? I will do this…I will pull down…I will build…I will store…I, I, I…” Lundblad says, “Following Jesus calls us beyond ourselves and Jesus’s call usually has economic implications.” This parable summarizes the odd economy of God. What is God’s economy? How do we live it out today? Listen and find out how we can see beyond the border of our fields, bank accounts, or investments and have a truly abundant life.
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