老铁匠的紫砂壶有人说是一个真实的故事。说有一个老铁匠过着粗茶淡饭，自给自足的生活; 每天喝着他那把祖宗三代留下来的紫砂壶里的茶水，悠闲自在。一天一个路过的商人发现他那把紫砂壶是把价值几十万的宝贝，老铁匠并没有舍得卖。可是从此他的生活不再平静，向他淘宝的接踵而至，甚至向他借钱。老铁匠一怒之下，砸碎了紫砂壶。他从此又过上了平静悠闲的生活，并活到了102岁。
很多人追求财富的目的是想过平静悠闲的生活，可很多人有了更多的钱后并没有过上这样的生活，因为人的贪心永无止境。
路加福音12章耶稣说人们应免去一切的贪心，人的生命并不是由家道丰富组成的。随后耶稣打了个财主扩建仓房的比喻: 说有个财主田产丰盛，粮食和财物无处储藏，遂扩建仓房，并心里说只管安安逸逸的吃喝快乐吧; 神却对财主说:"岂不知今夜就要你的灵魂，你所预备的要归谁呢？" 这当然只是耶稣打的一个比喻，不过足以说明财富与生命无必然联系。
人可以非常富足，更需要在耶稣基督里富足，因为他里面生命，有永生!
路12:13 众人中有一个人对耶稣说、夫子、请你吩咐我的兄长和我分开家业。
One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
路12:14 耶稣说、你这个人、谁立我作你们断事的官、给你们分家业呢。
But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"
路12:15 于是对众人说、你们要谨慎自守、免去一切的贪心．因为人的生命、不在乎家道丰富。
He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
路12:16 就用比喻对他们说、有一个财主、田产丰盛．
He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
路12:17 自己心里思想说、我的出产没有地方收藏、怎么办呢。
He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
路12:18 又说、我要这么办．要把我的仓房拆了、另盖更大的．在那里好收藏我一切的粮食和财物。
He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
路12:19 然后要对我的灵魂说、灵魂哪、你有许多财物积存、可作多年的费用．只管安安逸逸的吃喝快乐吧。
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
路12:20 神却对他说、无知的人哪、今夜必要你的灵魂．你所预备的、要归谁呢。
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
路12:21 凡为自己积财、在神面前却不富足的、也是这样。
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
