"Preacher, that’s all mine. I came to this country, twenty-five years ago penniless and now I own everything as far as you can see in that direction."
Then he turned in the opposite direction where they faced fields of grain; waving his arm from right to left he said, "It’s all mine as far as you can see."
He then turned to the east and pointed to huge herds of cattle and said again, "It’s all mine as far as you can see."
One final time he turned to the west and pointed to a great virgin forest and said, "It’s all mine and today I own everything as far as you can see."
He paused for the expected praise but to his surprise, it didn’t come. The preacher laid a hand lovingly on his shoulder, pointed upward and said, "How much do you own in THAT direction?"
The man dropped his head in shame and said, "I never thought about that."
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Mark 8:36