Romans 4:20-25; Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people; Luke 12:13-21

The rich young fool busies himself with self-storage units; he busies himself with making more space for his things rather than creating space for God.

This is his down fall.

We has a people do the same thing, whether we are rich or poor, nonetheless, foolish we remain.

Here are few statistics to help paint the picture.

In the U.S. alone there is 2.2 billion square feet of self-storage units. In the world there are 58,000 self-storage units, 52, 000 are in the U.S. alone.

What does this say about our foolishness. We have created a lot of space for stuff. We have not been so diligent in creating space for God, at least in our hearts and in the way we live our lives.

These self-storage units create a sense of false security.

Jesus reminds us today that everything isn't as secure as it may seem for we all shall hear the words, "you fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the htings you have prepared, to whom will they belong?"

Greed is all around us.

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that greed is that reality in which "we have lost sight of the eternal and concentrate on the temporal."

Dante, in his classic tale "The Divine Comedy" in which he journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven describes those who were guilty of greed as those bound with hands behind their back and and their face laid to the earth for that is how they chose to live their life fixated on earthly things.

One of the better images of greed is seen in Genesis 3. God curses the serpent for enticing Adam and Eve to sin with the following curse, "on your belly you shall crawl, and dirt you shall eat all the days of your life."

This captures greed most perfectly, those who crawl on their belly and get their fill of that which will eventually become dust and dirt.

As believers we must let go of the stuff and begin to create space for God more and more. This is what Abraham does. In the first reading St. Paul describes Abraham as a man, "empowered by faith and gave glory to God."

Abraham had is eyes fixed on what was above and thus was enables to move forward even to the point of leaving his homeland and the false security of his wealth and riches in moving forward in true security that comes in Faith.

Thus, it was credited to him as righteousness.

In the above picture, Bosh paint the four last things, Death, judgment, hell, and glory and in the center depicted are the seven deadly sins with Jesus at the heart of the picture rising from the tomb.

In the latin inscription below Jesus you have the words, "cave, cave Deus Videt" which is beware, beware God sees.

If we store up treasure in heaven by creating space for God then in the end it shall be credited to us as righteousness.