Our World, Un-Moneyed (Poem)

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