HUMANITY today is working to maintain what is often termed a state of well-being. Individuals strive for a normal state of health, a balanced budget, a secure and respected place in the community, and perhaps, most of all, for a congenial and happy relationship within the home. Many are seeking to add in some measure to their individual store of harmonious being.
Harmonious being—what a joy! Yet what a challenge the sustaining of it presents to those who think they have found it in matter! The fear that whatever degree of good one may have attained toward the sum total of well-being can suddenly be interrupted or even annihilated by mortal laws, over which one has no control, certainly places such harmony on a very insecure basis.
Christ Jesus related a parable of a certain rich man who had "much goods" and planned to rebuild and enlarge his barns in order to store them all. We read in Luke (12:20, 21): "God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." This individual found that his riches in matter had no substance.
