Stock market guru Jim Cramer, host of television’s Mad Money, says, “Bulls make money.” Then he adds, “Bears make money.” Then the punch line, “Pigs get slaughtered.”
“Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.” He is saying, “Beware of being greedy when you are investing in the stock market. You may overreach and lose everything.”
Jesus has said much the same thing. “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” He told a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
“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 12:13-21)
Jesus didn’t say it as indelicately as Jim Cramer does, but the message is the same. Greed can be your undoing. “Pigs get slaughtered.”
Thanks to King Duncan for sharing.
Are YOU and I storing up for ourselves…or are we becoming rich toward God?
WE AREN’T CALLED TO BE LIKE OTHER CHRISTIANS. WE’RE CALLED TO BE LIKE CHRIST!
My Commentary:
Who is happier, the man with 10 Billion dollars or the man with 10 kids? The man with 10 kids. Why? Because he knows he does not want any more!
The above reflection brings together two very different voices — one from Wall Street, the other from the Gospel — and yet they speak the same truth.
Jim Cramer says it bluntly: “Pigs get slaughtered.” His warning is about greed — the kind that pushes a person to overreach, to want more than is reasonable, and in the end, to lose everything. It is practical wisdom, born from watching human behavior in the marketplace.
Jesus goes deeper.
He is not just concerned about losing money. He is concerned about losing one’s soul. In the parable of the rich man, the problem is not success or abundance. It is the illusion that possessions can secure life. The man believes he has finally arrived — enough stored away to rest easy. But he has forgotten the one thing he cannot control: TIME.
“This very night your life will be demanded from you.”
Greed is dangerous not only because it risks financial loss, but because it narrows our vision. It tempts us to believe that life consists in what we accumulate. It shifts our focus from who we are becoming to what we are acquiring.
And that is the deeper loss.
From a Christian perspective, the issue is not having, but hoarding. Not earning, but trusting in what we earn as if it were ultimate. The rich man built bigger barns, but a smaller soul. He prepared for years he would never see, while neglecting the eternal life already within his reach.
Cramer warns investors: Don’t be greedy — you might lose everything.
Jesus warns all of us: Don’t be greedy — you might lose what matters most.
In the end, both are right. But only one points us beyond the market to the meaning of life itself.
And so the question remains: Are we storing up for ourselves…or are we becoming rich toward God?
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