So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Here is a picture of present folly, and of its awful issue. Such is the man "who is not rich toward God:" he lives to amass and enjoy such riches only as terminate on self, and end with time; but as to God's favour which is life (Psalms 30:5), and precious faith (2 Peter 1:1; James 2:5), and riches in good works (1 Timothy 6:18), and the wisdom which is better than rubies (Proverbs 3:15), and in a word, all that the Lord esteems true riches (Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:18), he lives and dies a beggar!