The joke says, "A rich man who died and went to heaven complained that he wasn't allowed to bring his wealth with him, so he was encouraged to return and bring back just one suitcase full of his possessions. Our rich man was smart and filled his one suitcase with the gold bars into which he had converted his extensive wealth. When he returned to heaven he was asked to show everyone what was in his sutcase. Upon revealing its contents, one of the inhabitants of heaven asked the man, 'Why did you bring back pavement?'"
The obvious point of this story is that our greatest earthly treasures are worth nothing in eternity. The poet Anne Bradstreet wrote, after watching a fire destroy all her possessions:
And when I could no longer look,
I blest his Name that gave and took,
That layd my goods now in the dust:
Yea so it was, and so 'twas just.
Jesus said, "A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
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