Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
The days of the Great Depression suddenly threw people into hard times, harder than the pioneer days for many.
A striking comparison of then and now:
An objective psychological evaluation showed that young people growing up today have six times the stress of young people growing up in the Great Depression.
Hopefully this will be a series of short samples comparing life in pioneer days with life nowadays.
This started for me years ago when I told my friends I would fit better in pioneer days—my values, work ethic, frugality, faith, would work there (like Homestead Farm in Elm Mott, TX today)—except for some basic survival skills like butchering animals, skills that didn’t get passed on to me from previous generations that got it.
However, my friends responded with, “Yeah, but the pioneers had to deal with life and death on a daily basis.”
It was actually a few years before I had this response, “Yes, the pioneers had to deal with life and death on a daily basis, and so do we—plus a lot of garbage they did not have.”
It does not take long to think of several examples.
What does it take to hear God say, “Now, we can talk.”?
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God is talking.
Step one on our part, to “be still.”
Remember, God is talking.
So, just exactly what do you have to do—what does He mean, “Be still.”?
“Shut up—shut your mouth and shut your mind.”
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THEN—
+You can listen.
THEN—
+God can tell you stuff.
THEN—
+Only then, God can tell you stuff.
THEN—
+It’s all about Him !
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That’s worship.
That’s time with God.
That’s fellowship.
That’s sweet.
I wonder how many people (Americans) hear a drift of the teaching that Christians will be out of here before big trouble—and then live like we won’t see God’s judgment on America, for sixty million abortions.
That would definitely not fit God’s past record of dealing with sin.
I find it impossible to believe that America is the one exception in history to God’s judgment, starting now—Christians included, because we bear a great deal of responsibility for this holocaust.
We have forgotten how to repent.
God can solve that.
But I fear that many Americans claiming Christianity will despair and turn away from God as judgment is falling, because they have been lied to in the pew with comfortable Christianity.
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What can we know for sure ?
What the Bible says is for sure !
What man says is not for sure.
What we think and feel is not for sure.
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“Be not deceived, God is not mocked; whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”
Same for nations: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
“If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from THEIR WICKED WAYS—then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
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