Golden fools – Thomas Brooks

And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry!” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?” This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God. Luke 12:19-21

Every man in the world is a fool who heaps up treasure to himself and is not rich towards God. This age is full of such golden fools, who pamper their bodies but  starve their souls: who primp and trim up their bodies with gold, silver, and silks while their souls are naked, and ragged, and destitute of all grace and goodness.

Such fools only mind and care for the things of this life as what they shall eat, and what they shall drink, and what they shall put on. They are all for their bodies, their bellies, their backs. They take no care, they make no provision for their immortal souls. So fools look only to their bodies; and have no concern for their souls. Only let them have but food for their bodies and they care not what becomes of their souls! Surely no fools like these fools!