Jesus wanted to get a point across.  In Luke 12, someone came to him asking the Lord to intervene in an inheritance dispute.  Jesus backed away from that but shared a valuable lesson with him.  And with us.  He talked about a wealthy man who had done quite well in business.  This prosperous man had so much that he didn’t quite know what to do with it all, so he decided to “pull down my barns and build greater.”  Then he declared that he would retire, sit back, take it easy, and “eat, drink, and be merry.”  But then God came along and spoke reality to him and did so quite bluntly.  Notice verse 20: “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”  “Thou fool.”  Literally, you mindless, egotistical, unwise man.  Thinking life was about having and then getting more.  Life focused solely on the temporal with no thought of eternity.  Treasure down here, nothing up there.  We find ourselves agreeing whole-heartedly with the Lord, don’t we?  “Yes, what a fool he was,” we say to ourselves.  But I fear we judge him too quickly because we do not first look in the mirror.  It’s not about wealth, it’s about our life priority.  Jesus tells us in verse 15, “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”  When you and I live only for now, only for what we see and have here on earth, giving no consideration to the Biblical teaching and eternal impact of our choices and lifestyle priorities, well….  Let’s just say, God could say the same thing to us.  “Thou fool.”  Let’s live for eternity.  Let’s live for God.  Let’s live wisely.