Our
money game is like a house of cards, a game of shadows,
Designed
to motivate work-for-debt every one of us owes.
Thanks
to Scottish economist, banker, and gambler, John Law,
We
have our Fractional Reserve System, with some built-in flaws!
Yeah,
it triggered funding of industrial revolutions,
But
to these built-in flaws, we’ve never found a good solution.
One
flaw is the need to earn interest that feeds
An
endless spiral of growth and debt that bleeds.
This
‘interest-growth-debt’ cycle, tricks us to focus
On
all the wrong things about which God has warned us;
Things
like envy, selfishness, and covetousness,
And
other such things that made our world such a mess.
Spirits
that continually motivate such things as these
Are
the same to whom Adam mortgaged Earth in a long-term lease.
They
have blinded our eyes, stolen our peace and stopped up our ears
To
the wise knowledge God gave mankind at the start of ‘our years’.
He
calls the moneyed systems of our world, our life, ‘Babylon’ --
Man’s
attempts to meet our needs, while giving Him a great big
>>YAWN<<.
Reading
about things ‘Babylonian’ reveals what He thinks,
And
how ardently in His nose anything ‘Babylon’ stinks! 1
Revelation
uncloaks how roots of these systems are deployed,
And
shows how the core spirit of ‘Babylon’ will be destroyed.
Ponder,
as you negotiate our moneyed systems so bane,
What
system might Jesus employ in His millennial reign??
We
are so steeped in our broken, ‘beggar-thy-neighbor’ approach,
That
other ways we can’t even imagine, nor will we broach.
But
another way, yes, His way, definitely shall there be!
So
come along for a moment, and imagine it with me.
That
The Bible has clues of His system, of this I’m convinced,
In
stories of the lives in which His supply was evidenced.
Our
moneyed systems of life will become so irrelevant,
When
replaced with God’s ‘need-meeting system’ so benevolent.
Some
worry about new currencies, like Bit Coin.
His
system, God even now, invites us to join,
Leaving
our merciless systems to which we are all slaves,
For
The Word of His Grace, bestowed, by The God of ALL Grace.
See,
it’s not about demand and supply, as we might suppose,
Nor
about the management of scarcity, as economic fear grows.
It
is about management, of UN-limited resources,
And
learning about God, our source, from Whom every blessing flows.
He
said He’d meet our needs, and desires of our heart,
From
His riches in Glory, if only we’d do our part.
In
His reign, His riches will come from Glory, to be here on Earth,
Wiping
out all
notions of scarcity, revealing His true worth!
Here,
He will establish His Son’s holy, worldwide monarchy,
Not
some puny attempt at pluralistic democracy!
Then
full knowledge of Him and all His
ways will fill this planet,
And
wisdom from that knowledge will meet all needs -- by His
Spirit.
But
wait just a minute! It would be quite a blooper,
If
you think my rhyme only relates to the future!
Meeting
all needs, He indeed will do. I’ve told you how.
If
He can do it then, He will do it…even NOW!
He
asks only for hearts that are willing,
Which
with His Word daily we are filling;
Lives
that before Him bow in submission,
That
He anoints to fulfill His mission.
Money
becomes less and less relevant,
In
anointed lives that aren’t arrogant.
We
become less ‘I’, more ‘others’ focused,
And
help them choose HIM as their life’s locus.
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1 Spiritual ‘Babylon’, referring to all the ungodly systems of our world.
2 See: Philippians
4:19
