Is Cheap Food a Blessing?
This time of year, while folks spend time thinking about what they are thankfull for, someone will always remark that we are “blessed with an abundance of cheap food”. Now I realize that having plenty to eat, in OT themes, is a sign of God’s blessing. I also realize that that food probably had some nutrition in it, made folks healthy-not sick, and was the result of God’s people obeying His Law/Word and not disregarding it. Our situation is very different. Our “cheap food” is the product of disobedience, the product of embracing the economics of satan in the form of usury, debt, fiat money and a total disregard for creation. America’s “cheap food” was made possible by driving huge numbers of people from their land and puting it in the hands of the industrial agri-businessmen who hunger for nothing more than to get bigger. As I and others have mentioned in the past, so called “cheap food” is anything but cheap. When you factor in the gov’t subsides, the value of clean water and the medical bills piling up as a result of eating garbage; the costs are very high. No, I’m afraid that “cheap food” in this country is God’s judgement not His blessing. What would a food system that honored God look like? Can you imagine a land full of small faithful landholders, working with their own hands, producing a bounty of healthy food.
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December 1st, 2006 at 8:49 am
Scott, your posting makes me think of the proverb, “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.” The world’s system of cheap riches adds sorrow. There is no circumventing the mandate that man shall not live by bread alone (the things of this world made or derived apart from any obedience to God) but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
December 1st, 2006 at 10:54 am
Scott, this is exactly the vision I have. I am praying that the eyes of many will be opened and they will seek to support God honoring agricultural endeavors. Thanks for this post. Awesome thougths as always.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:23 am
My two cents is worth a mere two cents … but I sure do agree with y’all.
Isaiah had a question for us: (Isa 55:2 NKJV) Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
We would rather spend our money on chemicals to ingest, and then pagan entertainment, than to spend it on food, and then to delight in that. And while the reference is not literally speaking of food, it draws its force from the fact that, were it literal, it would be astonishingly s-t-u-p-i-d to spend ones money, and not receive real food in return.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I agree with you observations on our “cheap food.” As we have been given opportunity to harvest some of our own natural food (chickens, cows, goats) the taste and quality difference have been astounding. This just one area where our prosperity is not always a blessing, but yet a curse with ever increasing judgement. By God’s grace more eyes will be opened up to His ways and the truth of the Gospel.