“For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others. Their tombs will remain their houses forever their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves. People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts

that perish.” Psalm 49:10-12

Dear Heavenly Father, How you must laugh when you see people topple statues to erect their own. Not one monument we leave behind will keep us from slipping out of the frame of this earth. We are all just passing through. Whatever seems like wealth only means a bigger debt of responsibility to you. If it were not for your redeeming grace we’d all be lost forever because we waste so much of our borrowed wealth on ourselves. No monument will last on that last day either. Then only what you revere will be left standing. Cover us oh God with the righteousness of your Son and fill us with his selflessness so we cease exploiting your loaned possessions for our own vanity and rise to serve people who need us to share what we have. Amen.

God shares his wealth with us so we can have the pleasure of sharing like him not hoarding it until he gives to someone else himself.