Northern Farmer

This had to be the nicest day in quite a while. Sunny and no wind, the no wind being the kicker! The Box Elder bugs are doing real well too. They’re still all over the outside of the buildings in the sunshine and I even brushed one off the brim of my hat as I started typing here this afternoon. I tell you, a person blinks and you get behind, behind on the blog, taking care of some bills, answering all the e-mails about our beef. Got three e-mails this afternoon alone about the beef because I have a really good customer spreading the word down in the Twin Cities. Thank you Lord for such a people you send here, they become a part of the farm in their own way. What a blessing!

But this is the last of October and fall is winding down whether we want it to or not. In a couple of days most folks are going to be celebrating halloween, but we ain’t. Although I’ll be dressing up as, of all things, a hillbilly. Might really not be dressing down as far as I’m concerned, might even be a step up! Which reminds me, I gotta go out into the farm truck and get my cap that’s been on the floor for a couple years. Gotta wash it. It’s not really in the best of shape but it’ll do. Over in church Wednesday night we’re gonna have hillbilly night with the kids. And I can honestly say that I didn’t even think about it being halloween till well after I said that’s what we’d do. So nobody can say that we’re just providing an activity to replace halloween. I say, why replace something we don’t even recognize anymore! So that’s that for that!

But I’m going to take the guitar, the banjo and the accordion there Wednesday evening. I ain’t all that good at the first two but I can play the accordion fairly decent. What can I say, eh! Gonna bring some vittles not made in industrial agriculture and sing some old gospel songs, play some of the games kids played a hundred years ago, and tell ghost stories but these will be Holy Ghost stories, true stories! Yup, old farmer Tom is looking forward to this. I figure to do this every few months because it sure could be used bringing in kids from families that are about as far from God as you can get. Alcoholic families, drugged up families, and just generally families where God is not known.

I believe in this so, so much that it just drives me. To go after the lost any way a person can. I don’t expect them to come crawling to church, why should they? Cause if anything can turn someone away from God it’s a good share of church’s today anyhow. Both on the right and on the left. I read over and over again even around here on the internet how people prefer man made ideas over what the Word of God says and will openly admit it. But Jesus Christ died and rose again for every person ever born, not a select few. And as a rule of thumb, those folks that figure they’re the select few might be in for a hot time for eternity. I’ve always noticed when a person figures they’re one of the select few, they figure that they don’t have to obey Jesus. Yup, that’s right! I’ve noticed when a person follows man’s ideas like this they figure the heck with the rest of the world, they figure a person can come crawling to them in their deader than a doornail church’s. Where’s the healings, where’s the moves of God, where’s the hunger to spread it around and do exactly what Jesus commanded every believer to do, that’s commanded, where? It’s too bad, but that’s exactly what the Bible says would happen.

Enough of that, I’m not going to worry myself over those that turn their back on God and come up with a form of religion that glorifies man’s ideas. But again, one last word on this, every time folks come up with these idea’s they always say it supersedes the written Word of God. Publicly admitting they follow man, not God. Ok, well…

I gotta get out of here and find my old cap and get it washed up. Those kids are important! I sure do love those little rascals in church! Those kids are on fire for God like few grown ups are. They ain’t cursed with religion! They love Jesus with everything they got and things really happen in that quiet little town in the middle of no where. Someday I’ll have to write about the awesome acts of God there. Even in the main service this week the testimonies were so powerful from folks in the service. The moves of God are picking up steam out here in the middle of nowhere.

Hmm, I have no idea why I wrote about this, it just came out. I’m not on any war path or anything like that. But I guess we call ourselves Christian and we live out here in the country, and in reality this is the main driving factor in our whole lifestyle here. In fact without this, there’s not one reason to go on at all.

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