Lessons from Monopoly

1. Can’t always play it safe; take some chances.

2. When the game is over, it all goes back in the box.

“I wanted the thrill of winning to be my perpetual companion.
I was so heady with victory after all those years
that for a few moments I lost touch with reality.”
– John Ortberg

We all want God, writer Anne Lamont writes,
but left to our own devices, we seek all the worldly things –
possessions, money, looks, power – because we think they
will bring us fulfillment. “But this turns out to be a joke,
because they are just props, and when we check out of this life,
we have to give them all back to the great prop master in the sky.
They’re just on loan. They’re not ours.”
They all go back in the box.

When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, p. 16.

Luke 12:16-21 (New International Version)

“The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself,
“You have plenty of grain laid up for many year.
Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.’” “But God said to him, ‘You fool!
This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get
what you have prepared for yourself?’
“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves
but is not rich toward God.”

1 Timothy 6:10 (NIV)

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith
and pierced themselves with many griefs.

HOW IS THE MASTER OF THE BOARD?

WHO IS IN CHARGE OF YOUR GAME?