From Forward Day By Day
Luke 12:13-14 (NRSV) Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”
In this story, Jesus is in the middle of instructing his followers on how they should react when they are called to account for having followed him. A heckler pops up demanding that Jesus tell his brother to share an inheritance with him. I love Jesus’ answer: He’s not arbitrating for our wealth; he is here to save our souls.
Jesus explains to us that accumulating wealth means nothing. Just a few verses later in Luke, Jesus tells us, “Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Luke 12:33-34).
Ask yourself how to get your heart closer to God’s. You will find that the answer is in other people, not in things.
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