Mondays Thoughts
Its been wet and chilly the last few days. Hard to get to exited about anything, didn’t even make it back to my blog to follow up on the comments of my last post. The wood fire is putting off some heat and I’m enjoying it, so I thought I’d stop in here at the old blog for a few minutes. It will struggle to get out of the 40s today and drop down well bellow freezing tonight. Had to go and cut some more fire wood up, I really thought I was done burning wood. We got some much needed rain the last couple of days, an inch and a half since saturday morning. Now the grass can start growing back. Made the garden pretty soggy though. We have chard, spinich, beets, sugar snap peas and snow peas up and out of the ground. Wish we were further along but the weather has kept me back from getting to crazy with plantings. Old Fred and Betty sold out and moved down off the hill last week. We’ll miss them, that for sure. Another area farm is selling out this month as well. I read the auction notices like city folks read the obituaries in the paper. The countryside is changin’, and it ain’t for the better. All this fallow land around here just proves that americans don’t get it. Jeff mentioned in the last post’s comments that wealth is not created from trading goods, it is created out of the ground. God gave us topsoil, rain, sun and the dominion mandate. Thats how a nations wealth is created, from crops and timber and minerals and the subsquent trading of them that allows industry of any kind to exist. Any nation that builds an economy on the idea that selling, buying and trading stuff that others produced creates wealth is destine to fail. On the same note though we can’t get to thinking that economy based on raw materials without God’s law can exist either. That is a trap we must avoid at all costs, faithful obedience is what God requires of man. Now, obedience to His word will by default set up that kind of economy but if you only want the economy and your heart is still set on wickedness it won’t do you a federal reserve notes worth of good. God sees a man’s heart. He curses nations for their disobedience and blesses them for obedience as well. On the other hand American Christianity has bought into this weird false notion that they can have salvation without it effecting them on “the outside”. The response is always “I’ve got Jesus in my heart and thats what really matters”. Thats the problem though, they say “come into my heart” and then say “STAY down in there”, “Don’t get in the way of my earthly life”. The truth is, faith without works is dead, a good tree dose not bare bad fruit. These autonomus people have no life in them, you can’t have Jesus “in your heart” without it showing through in how you live. In a nutshell thats were we are in this country. We are reaping what our culture has sown. A belief that we could have a “personal religion” a kind of “fire insurance for the soul” and act any way we pleased, that somehow God’s grace was a reason to “sin all the more”. Well, I’m kind of scarterbrained today, hope all that made some kind of sense.