Northern Farmer

We snuck out of the snow storm that hit parts of Minnesota yesterday, and not by much. Within an hour of here there’s allot of snow and even the interstate was closed. But we received around an inch of rain out of the deal. So we have no snow slop to contend with out of this storm. And as I write the skies are clearing off. I called er a day a tad bit early, got everything than needed being done, done. No need to trudge in mud and who knows, in a few more days it might start setting up here and a person can have at it on more solid ground.

I want to thank Jim for helping out here! And he’s welcome to jump in anytime he feels like it. We don’t have rules here, or order for that matter either. Just do what needs doing! Some good posts that he has shared! I don’t know what’s on my mind, but there’s always something that should come. And I was thinking about a testimony I had heard earlier given by a Christian brother talking about how they gave up farming a few years ago because there was no time for family. The debt was unbearable, work hard seven days a week and for what? At first when I was listening to something like this pride would swell up in me and I’d think it was an attack on the farming way of life. But after dwelling on it he was absolutely correct. But, and this is a big but, when I thought it over it was nothing more than a testimony of modern agriculture. Something that is, like just about everything else, designed to destroy the family.

And I’ve been there, and still have part of one foot in it. But just like that sticky mud outside, you work that boot around and try to unstuck it! It might take time, but sooner or later that boot will come out. Just like farming, the transition from modern, family destroying farming takes some time before one can become totally free from it. Back to the testimony, the only thing now that saddens me is the fact that these folks believe that going out and getting a job, quiting farming entirely, is the answer. And then even justifying it as the Christian thing to do because of family togetherness, or so it seems. That’s sad, to be sucked into a lie, a lie that says you have to get bigger, borrow more and more money to keep up in the farming “industry”. And in the end the family will be destroyed, it will be perfectly absorbed by this godless society, with very little hope of regaining anything good. That new way of life such as a steady paycheck, or a vacation every once in a while will all of a sudden show itself for what it really is in the future. A trap.

In modern farming there’s very little enjoyment, although I suppose this is somewhat a slanted view coming from a backwoods hick such as myself. But I call this blog a Christian farming blog so that’s always the angle I write with. In our own life as we transform slowly into a Christian farm family unit, throwing off the world’s views on the matter, there’s much more enjoyment everyday, much more. Life becomes alive again, both with family and farm. The family in modern farming is like the soil when it gets too much acid in it. Sour soil, badly needing lime to sweeten it up. The modern way of living on a farm is soured and in bad need of sweetening too. Our pastor yesterday made a statement that’ll probably stick with me for life. It goes something like , “if what your doing, if the way your living is frowned on by the world your more than likely doing the will of God.” Food for thought, eh. Because when we follow the rules of the world we must realize most of them are totally against the will of God nowadays. And the blood will be on our hands if we just go along with it all.

The enemy of the world is the family, simple. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about that. And the sooner a person admits it the sooner a person can get going the right direction. If we blend in perfectly with the world we will be destroyed with the world. Christians are supposed to be the light of the world, not a perfectly blended in part of it. A people apart. But that’s not the way it is anymore in this country. But on this farm we will dare to be different, and also on this blog. No compromise! Because you cannot compromise with evil. You cannot strike a deal. Its all or nothing! If anyone thinks the world loves their family, well, they are badly mistaken.

This testimony that I touched on has me chewing a little bit here. Another family gone off the farm and sucked happily into the world and calling it good. Sad. But that’s what’s happening nowadays. And most churches have no idea the catastrophic consequences that will result from it all. And it strengthens my resolve to preach out against this thing happening. There are answers, many good answers and they will be covered as time goes by. When I take my Bible and read it, I believe it! And my Bible says we aren’t to follow the wisdom of the world. The end result will be death, death to our families. In the testimony I mentioned the person testifying figures he has more time with his family now being he ain’t farming. But he’s working 40 to 60 hours a week on a job that requires a two hour commute, one way. But maybe he’s right. Because in heavy debt, modern farming he was never around, just racing to keep things going to pay off the people he borrowed money from, borrowed with his own free will. I hate debt and swear I’ll never owe anyone on this planet a dime ever again and there’s a great freedom in that. God wants His children to prosper, to have strong families. And it will not be accomplished following the world’s ways. I’ll end here and hope to continue this subject in the next few days. In ending I’ll include the Bible verse that’ll kick off the next installment of this. And believe me, its not the prosperity message those modern preachers are preaching everywhere now, turning God into nothing more than a heavenly vending machine to satisfy the worldly lusts of the modern Christian masses. This’ll be some old fashioned, Bible believing prosperity!

3 John:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

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