One rabbit trail I considered taking was into the passage immediately preceding the text for this Sunday's message.  In it Jesus tells the parable of the rich fool.  It is a parable which speaks strongly to our society.  Someone once defined true wealth as the ability to sustain your present lifestyle without ever having to work again.  That your investments are able to produce, without much oversight, enough income for you to take life easy, to eat, drink and be merry.  Of course that is exactly what the rich fool was set to do.  

And Jesus challenges that manner of thinking through this parable.  We strive so hard to accumulate wealth (I want to have $2,000,000 in the bank before I retire....) and when we do so our focus is messed up. 

Well, I decided no to go down that rabbit trail because it is a topic which deserves a full message in itself!     SMJ