It's All Monopoly Money

So don’t be impressed with those who get rich and pile up fame and

fortune. They can’t take it with them; fame and fortune all get left

behind. Just when they think they’ve arrived and folks praise them

because they’ve made good, they enter the family burial plot where

they’ll never see sunshine again. We aren’t immortal. We don’t last long.

Like our dogs, we age and weaken. And die. (Ps. 49:16–20 Msg)

God owns everything and gives us all things to enjoy. He is a good

shepherd to us, his little flock. Trust him, not stuff. Move from the fear

of scarcity to the comfort of provision. Less hoarding, more sharing. “Do

good . . . be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share.”

And, most of all, replace fear of the coming winter with faith in the

living God. After all, it’s just Monopoly money. It all goes back in the box

when the game is over.                   


-Excerpt from Fearless by Max Lucado