Re:Verse passage – Luke 12:13-21 (day three)
“Man, who appointed me a judge or arbitrator over you?”
Question: How do you navigate an inheritance dispute with a family member?
Response: What’s at stake in an inheritance dispute?
Let every reader note that Jesus does not engage in conflict shaming here. He certainly knew firsthand about family conflict; his public actions and life’s work placed him at odds with his own family. Indeed, Jesus’s response to the man in the crowd communicated the importance of doing the hard work required by conflict, engaging family members instead of looking for someone to take that hard work off one’s hands. That hard work, Jesus says, always involves the inner inventory of the heart: What am I willing to burn to gain wealth? Such fires have a way of becoming uncontrollable, endangering even your own ability to seek the Lord.
