Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 12:19-20

"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?" — Luke 12:19-20 (ASV)

Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

"Thou fool." That is God's opinion of the man who intends to build bigger barns so that he himself may enjoy what is about to be taken away from him. He was a fool to be laying up in store for others to scatter. Many a miser's heirs have lived to ridicule him.

He was the rake that gathered up a heap of gold, and they are the shovel and fork that scatter it. They drink the old man's health and are very grateful to him for denying himself so that they may drink so deeply.