The rich fool was a person who many of us could easily admire: successful, practical, a good planner, and a man who wanted to enjoy life. However, God calls him a fool because he overlooked the reality of death. Even more than that, he never realized that his greed would lead to unhappiness in this life, no matter how “successful” he was. That’s because God made us to live to do good works, not to indulge our greed by material accomplishment.
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