One day a man asked Jesus to sort out an inheritance dispute between himself and his brother – a common request for someone to make of a respected religious teacher.  The Lord declines and instead tells a parable about a rich man who builds a bigger barn to store his wealth only to find that God will demand his life that night.  The message is not simply a warning against greed. It is a reminder that our final home is in heaven and it is the wealth that we build up with God that really matters.  Here and now that wealth is hidden but what appears to be wealth in terms of the world is in truth emptiness or ‘vanity’.  We leave this world as we came into it – with nothing.  What we find when we come before God will depend on how we have used the gifts he has entrusted to us during this life, whether material or spiritual.