NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, BUT GOD IS MONEY

First, let me explain. My favorite all time poem is Robert Frost's short poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay".

It goes like this, well not really--it is this

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her earthly leaf's a flower,

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief.

Dawn goes down today,

Nothing gold can stay.

I love the simplicity of saying that nothing valuable, nothing even perfect like the Garden of Eden lasts. Nothing that is but Our Lord. And He's money.

Money's a slang term used by others who aren't money. What that means is that in a pressure situation, when the game's on the line, the person you want to come up to the plate, take the last shot, sink the putt, or carry the ball is the one who performs exceptionally well in those situations. Money himself or herself never thinks that way: they just want to be the one. They are relaxed. They've been there before.

So who's money? So who can stay? The triune God, and that's who.

Matt 3:16-17 "As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on Him. And a voice from heaven said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased'." God in three persons in two beautiful verses of scripture.

God is money. God is gold.