“Natural Milk”
July 31st, 2006 by Northern FarmerAnother 100+ degree day today, for some reason it didn’t feel as bad as before but I think it’s that we’re getting used to it. Lookin like the rains will miss us again but what the heck, don’t want to get rain and act all smart now, eh. The creek looks like it has just about had it. It might be stopped now after these hot, hot days and basically months with no real measurable rain. But one never has to fear, the rains will come during silage chopping time so we can get good and stuck with the tractors and wagons. That’s an unbreakable tradition around these parts.
Now I hate to even bring this up, because I have somewhat before, but this morning on the farm radio station around here they have a show called Dairy Line. It’s a bunch of bunk if I ever heard it, but it does have entertainment value and also lets a person know what the modern culture of death is up to. Today’s show was about organic dairying and our industrial heroes were really slamming the organic milk saying it was no different than the pure and wholesome “natural†milk that the industry produces. Now wait a minute! How come that liar could call all that drugged up, hormone induced garbage “naturalâ€? I can’t call our products “naturalâ€. There’s no freedom of speech for the family farmer producing superior products, I can’t say grass fed, I can’t say natural, I can’t say organic without the government’s permission so how can this industry guy call that near poison milk “naturalâ€?
That show was pretty interactive the way we were talking back to it today, to bad they couldn’t have heard us. It’s just another lie, more propaganda from those who feel it’s their right to poison the population for profit. It’s getting so sickening, the lies and deception, brainwashing people into accepting eating poisons. Someday, and I mean it, those folks will pay, big! All the families with cancer and countless other conditions because of corporate profits. Just so a few can prosper and have control.
I really dream of a world that would be more sane. What’s wrong with small family farms producing healthy food and healthy local economies? The industrial lie that says we have to farm modern to feed the world is nothing more than a lie. Small diversified family farms have the capability of producing four times the food as the modern industrial model. And it would be healthy food. The families would be stronger and happier in the countryside. The city folks would have good healthy foods and many of society’s biggest problems would dwindle. Oh, I can only imagine if greed, rampant greed was thrown out. But it won’t be so a person has to fight back the best they can. If that means producing good food that the industrial system doesn’t want the population to have, so be it. If that means to have a Christian family, an old fashion Christian family, not the modern, anything goes because your saved and can sin all you want religion that was invented the last fifty years or so. Well, maybe not invented because satan has been around much longer than that, lets say has gotten popular because now all the deeds of industrial greed don’t matter anymore, your saved and that’s it. Yup! Boy, are there going to be some surprises coming up for the luke warm church. And it all fits with what the Good Book says just as “everything†going on in the world is also.
You know, I never like to say things about myself as far as what good I do, but I’m finding that in real life that I really have been able to teach folks the truth about what’s going on as mentioned. I guess it’s a combination of passion, practice and love for others where I don’t want to see a single person duped by the modern cultures lies. A person has to stand for what they believe in and knows what’s right or else what good did they do in life. To just follow along and blindly accept every lie just doesn’t cut it. Besides, it sure does feel good doing the right thing. A person can sleep at night.
I’ve thought about this a lot lately, you know, about the quality of life when a person always stands firm and doesn’t accept the modern me, me, me life. About when faith in God is number one, about when love for our fellow man is right after number one. And no matter how a person tries twisting it, you cannot live a modern lifestyle and have God as number one. It doesn’t work anymore. And number two cannot work because number one is self, so fellow man is just a lower order that can be exploited. Naw, we’ll take the old ways right from the book of Acts and the New Testament, right from the Gospels. We’ll tend to the family, tend to our church, tend to our fellow man whether they know it or not, and most important, we’ll follow our Lord.
So let the industry guy call the bad milk “naturalâ€, we’ll just keep farming the way the Good Lord intended.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Hi there Tom!
Incredible thoughts and feelings expressed in your post again!
What really struck me was your words “no matter how a persion tries twisting it, you cannot live a modern lifestyle and have God as number one.”
I’ve had that conviction for a really long time. But that also means that millions of well meaning Christians are caught up in a lie. Either a person is part of the ‘Culture of Death’ or you choose to follow God’s word. I sure know what you mean about “lukewarm Churches and Christians”.
Look to the skies! So many of your blogging friends are praying that the Lord will bless you with rain that your skies are getting progressively darker. I see on the internet radar that storms are marching thru your fair state again tonight. Soon…………
Our gardens continue their bounty. Tonight a visiting friend found rich, plump strawberries in our patch. In spite of the heat, our strawberry patch has started producing again after stopping for the month of July. If this is their fall producing season, the will continue until a hard freeze this fall.
The wonder of God’s great Creation takes my breath away!
May God continue to bless the spiritual seeds that you are planting as well as your material seeds!
August 1st, 2006 at 5:44 am
Steven,
Thanks! Well, a few weeks ago I said to watch out because I’d be hammering away and would probably end up alone on this blog.
‘What really struck me was your words “no matter how a person tries twisting it, you cannot live a modern lifestyle and have God as number one.â€
I know these are harsh words, but I also know that no one can defend living the modern consumerism lifestyle and still claim to have submitted to Christ. I know this in my heart and won’t try to soften it up and say, “Well, it’s ok to do this and that because that’s the way it is now days.” Could you have imagined Peter and Paul having that attitude back then? Thankfully they followed God instead of the current lifestyle of the empire which is so similar to our own. And God empowered them as he does to every believer today that follows Him. The result of the church’s luke warm attitude today is a church that has no miracles or divine movement. Just dead religion. Religion can co-exist with consumerism and the me, me lifestyle. Religion can co-exist with anything it wants to because it’s totally from man anyhow and nothing to do with God. It’s so much easier to follow the masses, but so much better to have our eyes on Christ.
Well, I don’t know what’s going on outside, I know it rained somewhat around bedtime last evening and haven’t checked the rain gauge yet. Almost a little nervous to go out and look. I mean this is it, we are so streched out, so dry, I have know idea why our corn is holding together yet while so many surrounding fields are shot. It’s incredible!
Thanks again Steven and here’s to all you Turtle Mountain folks!
Tom
August 1st, 2006 at 8:29 am
Tom,
Amen to a great post! Keep on keeping on man, may God bless you and yours with rain soon…
Drew
August 1st, 2006 at 8:36 am
Good Morning Tom!
Least individuals consider our words to be overly harsh, I’m sure that you’d agree that there are a large number of people, sincer Christians that are caught up with the modern culture because that is how they have always lived. Many may be trying to live a Bible based life within the cities helping and guiding those around them.
Others may very well wish and plan to live a more agrarian life but may be burdened with debt or other commitments and unable to relocate into a rural area.
I’m not even saying that moving to a rural area is essential for a Bible based life. A person living in an urban area can certainly chose to live a simplier, “love” centered life. In fact, Christian ministry within urban areas is so very important. A person can share then truth of God’s love wherever they live by how they chose to live their lives, how they care for their neighbors and the people on the street, with the choices they make with the spending of each dollar they make, how they choose to make that money and on and on.
We do have it much easier to live a Bible based life in a rural area surrounded by a Christian family and a Christian community. I pray for those offering a living ministry within the depths of this modern self-centered society. They are the ones that really face trials.
I read that 60% of the country is either in a drought or have below normal rainfall. Sounds like storebought food prices are set to increase greatly along with energy prices. Incredible that our government does not include food and energy when they figure their inflation index on ‘core’ products–as if we can live without them—more lies. I figure my personal inflation index is more like 12% this year compared to the government’s 4% index.
Prayers—from everyone I’m sure—continue for the blessings of rain (physical and spiritual) for you and for the everyone in need.
August 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am
Drew,
Thanks and we received around 7/10ths last evening and are getting off and on showers this morning. Things look much more alive and I sure do hope we can add to that total today. I’m on the edge of my seat, so to speak
Steven,
Great points. I just finished reading a book last evening called “Fresh Wind / Fresh Fire” written by the Pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Now that’s as city as a person can get and it was a refreshing book. And you know what was amazing about that Spirit Filled church in the midst of a huge decaying city was it said basically the same thing we say about the modern Spirit void, consumer Christians. What’s happening in the huge cities is amazing when folks put God first. And it always happens when folks are sincerly following the Lord that the earthly things lose importance just as written here. After reading this book I have a tremendous love for the folks in the inner cities that follow Christ against all odds.
And the outlook these people have is no different than the outlook of Christians in the countryside. They look to Christ first.
Country or city, what we talk about, it makes no difference at all. Country or city, if they follow the world they don’t follow Christ, because we can’t serve two masters. It was so uplifting to read about that urban movement in Christ that I know I’ll never forget our brothers and sisters in the inner cities. When folks follow God, God moves mountains!
August 1st, 2006 at 11:35 am
“When folks follow God, God moves mountains!”
How true. I think that people today listen to “them” whoever they are… You know, you hear statements like “they say that….” People don’t think for themselves anymore. Their lives are so full of running each child to their music lesson, sporting practices and events, and all the other things that they can’t stop to think. Their entire household is always told to hurry up because they are running late. We have so much technology that is supposed to help us save time, yet that is not what is happening. Also, with that technology comes more time of dealing with how said technology works. That leaves little time for thinking on the things of the Lord like you can while sitting milking an animal, picking beans, pulling weeds… It is so good for us to hear that there are others out there that feel the same way in these areas. It helps us to keep on keeping on. We are a TRUE oddity to those around us.
August 1st, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Good post. I sipped on some fresh milk today. I would have shared some of last week’s rain here with you if I could’ve
Don’t forget that we also get the truth from the Law and the Prophets. God’s word is the whole Bible and all scripture is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, for instructio nin righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
The New Testament does not stand alone. Just as Jesus continually quoted and tought from the “Old Testament,” so we should follow His example, and the example of the apostle Paul and other NT writers. How do we know we need Jesus except that the Law teaches that God is will not except us without the shedding of the Blood of the Lamb?
August 1st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Yep..I agree…. You don’t have to be rural to live Godly……..Fresh wind/ Fresh Fire…good book…rain…goood thing too :):)
August 1st, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Marci,
You sure think like me, now I don’t know if that’ll be taken as an insult or a complement, but it was written as a compliment! Thanks!
Great comments! How about me giving you the password to run this blog for awhile
Clint,
The fresh milk sounds great and thanks for the rain offer, I know you mean it.
The Old Testament is critically important for a person to read and study, I agree 100%. And the greatest thing is how Jesus came to fullfill the Law. And to take the yoke of the Law off the backs of men. I praise Jesus everyday for His sacrifice and for setting people free and for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now I realize that statement can be taken out of context and have me accused of throwing the Law out, but no big deal because I figure Jesus knows more about it than many people do. When following these verses below a person, actually believers because an unsaved person isn’t obeying commandment #1, we are fullfilling all of God’s laws.
Matthew 22:34-40 (King James Version)
34But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
35Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38This is the first and great commandment.
39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
And the Old Testament folks didn’t have the Gift of the Holy Spirit. I love these verses too.
Mark 12:28-34 (King James Version)
28And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
32And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
So to sum it up, the Old Testament is incredibly important, but Jesus’s death and resurrection covered it all. And believers obeying the two commandments that Christ gave us covers all the Law. What I love salvation is that it’s so simple, only man complicates it.
To answer your question “How do we know we need Jesus except that the Law teaches that God is will not except us without the shedding of the Blood of the Lamb?” Well, I’d be willing to bet that the vast majority of folks that truely got saved the last two thousand years never knew about that in the Law before and when they got saved. The only way to be saved is faith, the faith that Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead.
John 3:16 (King James Version)
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
When I got saved I didn’t have hardly any knowledge of the Old Testament, but I got saved thanks to Jesus. I wasn’t educated in the whole thing, just broken and asking, and believing, for God’s love and forgiveness. Just as millions have and more will, on that seed of faith to accept salvation.
Thanks!
Patti,
Did you read that too??? That’s a good book!
Tom
September 4th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for answering my question about seeds and I agree. I was born and raised on a 80 acre farm and my grandparents last names were Akers. ( Just a little joke but true)
I lived all my live in Iowa until I thrned 19. And of course the world got me but you and all your friends are very right about God and the way the world is living. The best life there ever was was the farm
We had electricity and that was it. We cooked with wood, we heated with wood. We had an out house. LOL and We had ten head of cattle and several head of hogs. We raised chickens and turkeys and my grandmother had an acre or better garden every year.
I have done it all growing up and now I am at the age my dear grandmother was when I left home for the big city.
I don’t know if we will ever get to live in the country again at our age in life. I am 62 but healthy for my age and my husband is 70 and fairly healthy for his age. He is a worker. Always has been.
My desire is that if I can’t live on a farm any more is to grow my own food and plan for self efficiancy for the time we have left on this earth. I started canning foods 2 yrs ago and taught one of my 4 daughters how.
Tomorrow and the next few days I will be making jams and jelly’s and tomatoes that we bought that are from actual farmer
s who live on farms and I plan on visitingthese farms next year.
We moved from Colorado to Georgia last Fevruary. I hope this is the last move we make
You know “A Rolling Stone never Gathers Moss.
I love your b;og and it brings back a ton of memories for me.
Mary Ann
September 4th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Thanks Mary Ann,
Wow, these are kinda the private conversations on the old blog. Not many will find it in an older post, but I do get notified no matter what post it’s under. About the seeds, I’ve posted several times in the past about the subject but I forget exactly where at the moment. I’ve posted so many things since the beginning here, I forgot where everything is.
But, thanks so much for telling me a bit about you all, it means allot to me when people do!
Thank you again!
Tom