A Tangled Web
July 22nd, 2008 by Northern FarmerThese last couple of days have been the most picture perfect days that I have seen in many a year. Just all out perfection. Sunny, very little wind, and only about 80 degrees with cool nights for sleeping. It don’t get much better than that. There’s some concern by big ag radio that the corn will have more moister in it this fall thus costing more to dry. But that don’t bother me none, most will be chopped for silage and the pickin corn can stay out in the field till its dry enough to pick and crib. The growth of the corn just amazes me as it gets taller and taller daily. This week I still won’t be in any field, kinda a week off from field work, but I figure next week to start on hay again, second crop. And around the same time the oats should be ready to swath, lookin good and none down this year so we’ll have easy swathing.
After all of that will be a lag time, if there is such a thing on the farm, where the major jobs will be rare until silage chopping. Could do a little fishing cause I still haven’t got out to do that no matter how hard I try. Could take a couple days off and head up to the North Shore and relax up there and a more beautiful place has yet to be found in Minnesota. Don’t really know what I’ll do but I should do something out of the ordinary cause I so rarely do. But if that all falls through no big deal, I’m happy right where I’m at, don’t need to go trying to seek happiness somewhere else. Plus I was thinking about retirement today, yup I was! I was thinking I ain’t ever going to retire! First of all, what’s there to do if I retire from this. I was thinking about how folks spend their whole life working, saving up money for retirement and then a couple of years after retirement they die. I figure allot of times its just from the shock of inactivity. Now if I was to retire, (which I won’t in the normal way), I thought why do people waste their time the way they do. Now I’m talking supposed Christians that retire. I think the greatest honor any retiring Christian could ever have would be to work for the church. By that I mean live life for Christ’s church, not some golf course and RV park in Bullhead City, Arizona sittin around doing basically nothing all day. Hmm, this got me thinking now! In the last 100 years or so this is about the first time in the history of the human race that there was such a thing as the retirements we know today. And it looks like it is the result if industrialism tearing apart the families and nothing short of that. The kids basically don’t give a rip what the old folks do as long as there’s plenty to inherit after they are gone so the kids can make a small dent in the massive mortgage they have that doesn’t look like it will be paid in their lifetime, plus the kids gotta start preparing for their retirement too so they can do the same thing. Nowadays in the churches this is all considered very good and they act like this way has been around since Adam and Eve, but it hasn’t been. There’s allot of them little houses on farms around here a little ways from the main farm house where the old folks used to live with the main family in the main house. Now I suppose some could say that they all should have lived in the main house, but them little old folks farm houses came in kinda handy if the old folks were a tad bit on the growly side. Besides, most families a few decades back had so many kids that even the big houses were packed full to the brim!
So now the lifetime is spent setting up retirement accounts and putting away money into “investments” that the culture of death takes and invests in destroying the family and the very fabric of the remnant of Christian culture. We pride ourselves in our investment and its even talked up as prosperity in churches, but all that folks are doing is fueling the culture that wants everything good destroyed and replaced by evil. What ever happened to the days when folks were more interested in laying up their treasures in heaven? Oh, it sounds nice, and it’ll get a nod from most all Christians, but are we doing it. The answer is no we are not. If Christians would live like Christians this world would be Christian pretty durn fast, but the sad thing is the vast, vast majority of Christians just give lip service if that. What ever happened to the people that would change the world for the Glory of God? There ain’t many around. Now its just full throttle in this society and give that worthless lip service so we look good to the other person that gives lip service.
Is there any hope? The answer is always yes no matter how dark the times look. Dark even though most people can’t see the darkness because of the deception. Around two hundred and fifty years ago England was going through dark times like we are now. It was for the most part godless. The ruling class had taken over everything, including Christianity and the masses were left with basically nothing. A typical day in London if a person was traveling thru they’d see a dozen or so fresh hung people at the gallows as they walked along on their business. And a good percentage of the executed were little children would were hung because they were stealing food because they were starving to death. The church was totally corrupt, its only aim was to please the rich and the people were left in a godless society and it was even pretty much forbidden at that time to even preach the Gospel to the poor. That was reserved for God’s chosen, the rich and powerful. When the Gospel was taken to the people in the open air, because they were not allowed in the churches, there was quite a stir. But the Gospel did go out and it changed the society like no one could have imagined. There were orphanages started for the first time, there was compassion for the poor and helpless for the first time. God was on the move through His people that had the guts to go against the system.
But the system don’t give up that easy and with industrialism the system had a way to make slaves out of people that thought they were getting ahead in the process. And here we are today, slaves in a system. Oh some might say, we have freedom to chose what we want to be. But I say, there’s very little freedom if you want something that doesn’t fit in to the industrial system that wants it all. The freedom folks think they have is the freedom to chose what kind of slave they want to be. So that way you can work and save your money, investing it so when the day comes when you are released from daily bondage, and your money is taken in the investment and put into corporations that’s only goal is destruction of the Christian culture and to enter into a new age of paganism. The investments parade abortion as a choice, a freedom. They take the investment money and parade about a gay agenda and call it good and put it in the schools and everywhere while we wait for our retirement money to grow so we can live a nice quiet Christian retirement somewhere separate from our family. Oh what a tangled web we weave!
I’d like to see the days come back where there weren’t people afraid to go out and preach the Gospel again. Because its exactly the same as it was a few hundred years ago, except that most folks don’t know how deep in bondage they really are. They are so taken in that I can listen to sermon after sermon and can just see how this has crept in and they call it normal, they call it good. But it isn’t and there will be a reckoning. This is a challenge to say the least, but it can’t be said that its a boring one! When all looks lost, that’s when God moves the most! I think I’ll close with my favorite saying:
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth.”