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What a great article........and MHO of it.I saw this article at Hidden Creek Homstead....and baby, it hit a nerve with me!!
Are Rising Prices Scaring You? We are getting e-mails and it has been all over the news - "What do we do? They are rationing rice!!" Um, they did that because Chinese restaurants were coming in and buying bags and bags at a time because it was cheap. Duh. I haven't decided if I should just laugh or start tearing my hair out. First everyone panicked over the price of gas... then it was the price of apples, then milk and now rice. What I find so amusing about the whole thing is a lot of those same people who are in a panic are still using their gas to go to the movies, to go on vacations, to travel for sports activities, to go shopping and to go most any place they want to go.They panic because they were brainwashed to panic. HELLO anyone who reads the newspaper daily, watches tv daily, or listens to the radio has been brainwashed with the message of 'recession' FOR MONTHS. If you tell a person a lie every day for months on end, eventually, they believe it. People are in a tizzy because they listened to lies........... So many people complain about the price of gas when it costs $4.00 a gallon but don't bat an eye when going to Starbucks to pay $4.00 for one cup (8 oz. or 1/8 of a gallon) of coffee that they could have made at home for pennies. Despite all the fuss, most Americans have not substantially changed their lives because of gas prices. NOT only have they NOT changed their lifestyles.......but they STILL would rather hug a tree than to dig for our own oil. Stuuuuuupid. They whine about gas, but are more than willing to let the Middle East dictate how much we pay. Poor blind souls. Then there is another whole group who complain about how they "aren't like other people". They don't spend a penny on anything and they still have nothing and, because their lot in life is so miserable, they have a right to be afraid of what is happening in the world and in their lives. They have a "What about me?" attitude all of the time.WELL GUESS WHERE THEY LEARNED THAT??? Hmmmmmmmm schools teach "what about me"......TV programs are all about ME. Magazines, ME, self help books (even christian ones) ME. The media in general ME ME ME ME ME. Walk into any place where people congregate. School, work, church.........everyone is too worried about what everyone ELSE is doing, dressing like, driving, living in.........Um, Scripture says: Mind your own business!! The Bible says that God does not give us the spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind. Even if you aren't a Christian, I want you to really think about those words because they apply to human nature in general.FEAR is from satan. Fear is a tool of the devil. Fear is a destroyer...........it is a tool of manipulators. Women who are beaten by their dh......fear is his greatest weapon against her. Children who are molested........fear is the greatest weapon used against them. Jesus said:John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; My Peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. He told us in advance what to expect.........if we would pick up the Bible instead of the newspaper, People magazine, or turn on the tube, we'd know this!! We are living in a world that is crazed with fear and because of that we have lost power over ourselves, our lives and our circumstances. Because of that fear we have very little love for anyone. When you love someone or something your main thoughts are focused on that person or thing that you love. What do you think about all the time? --Your spouse, your children, joyful things and happy things or do you focus on yourself and on how these terrible prices are going to affect you?It is the love of money that has driven us mad. We fear if we lack it, we can not buy. So many equate 'buying things' and "showing love". We think "oh my kid has to have an amazing b-day party, or an amazing b-day gift, or I have to take them on a vacation, or they have to have these clothes" Or ________ you fill in the blank. Do you know how powerless you become when you give way to fear? When you're constantly afraid, you can't function properly at work which leads to not getting a pay raise or worse yet, getting fired. You can't get your mind off of that which you fear and it filters into every area of your life.AMEN AMEN AMEN. Have your child take your photo at different times of the day (when you don't expect it) or photograph your spouse. A face, doesn't lie. Fear drains you of life. It sucks you dry........and your face shows it. Your voice shows it. Your actions reveal it........ You become short and angry with your family when they try to talk to you, ask you something or want to spend time with you because they are interrupting your focus on your fear. "How am I going to get some rice (or gas, or milk or apples)", "If there's a shortage of rice now, I'm sure that is going to lead to a shortage on ALL food", "If there is a shortage of food, that will mean I can't go on vacation this summer or buy that new car." As my daughter says "oh ye of little faith". That is what fear is. We are getting caught with our pants down. Spend Spend Spend debt debt debt. Now we are called to pay the piper, and our pockets are a little short............I am reaping what I have sown. Again, this is all in the Word....... You say but that's silly and doesn't even make sense. No it doesn't and that is where the sound mind comes in. Where there is fear there is total loss of rational reasoning or what I call "common sense". When someone isn't of sound mind (not using common sense), they think there is going to be a shortage on rice and they panic. They tell everyone they know. The word spreads and then everyone panics and runs out to hoard rice. All that fear has a snowball effect which then creates a shortage of rice where there wasn't one.Guess what? Satan played us like a fiddle. We are so.........sheep BAAAAAA BAAAAAAAAA. Because woman are not home, minding their own business (as Scripture COMMANDS) and out being busy bodies, this is how this kind of insanity starts! It's one thing to be informed. Its another to be hysterical. I guess if we pulled our spines out of the closet and came along side the "siren" and corrected them and tried to train them.......or call sin a sin.........but no, we must consider the "feeling" or the "diversity" of it all. Gag. Another one of satans tricks. If people had not given over to fear and had been of sound mind (using common sense) they would have thought, "No big deal, we'll have pasta instead or just do without rice for now." They would go about their daily business without giving it another thought and focus on more important things like how to be a kinder more loving spouse or parent.OR (now here's a concept) INVESTIGATE what the REAL reason is. Was there something that happened that caused the rice production to be less? Are Chinese restaurant owners buying it all up? Was their a disease that ate up the crop? Floods? Typhoons? What? Actually take the time to investigate truth!!!! Learn for yourself. Don't rely on others to "tell you what truth is".........That's how Hitler deceived a nation! When people aren't consumed with fear they can think more rationally, which helps them make wiser and more practical decisions. When fear is gone they have peace and joy and patience and most of all they are more loving.When fear is REPLACED with the Peace that only Jesus Christ can give, then AND ONLY THEN, we will have peace, joy, patience, and love. Think about it. How much of your life is ruled by fear? If you filter back through most negative emotions, most of them begin with fear of something. Do you buy things you can't afford because you are afraid of what people will think of you? Do you spend more on gifts for your friends and your children's friends because you fear that people won't love you?AMEN again. It's sickening, and maddening that I allow satan to manipulate me. I was breathless yesterday when I paid bills and then had to fill up the tank. Then I remembered.......um, (A) the mess I am in, I caused (B) Trust in the Lord with ALL my heart....(C) I chose not to do the evil ones bidding. I chose to have Faith in Christ! (d) BUT their are consequences to sin.......and this discomfort? Guess what.....I should be thankful that is ALL I am feeling. Take a serious look at the things you obsess about. Do you obsess about them because of some kind of fear? I don't know how to tactfully and gently say this but lately I have seen quiet (and sometimes loud) fear in a new thing called "becoming green and saving the environment". This is really just another form of fear. When people become obsessed and overcome, it is usually out of fear and not out of rational thinking.CASE AND POINT: She says "tactfully and gently" Um, no, the word I would use is Idolatry. Call it what it is!!! Stop namby pambying around!!!!! So many books tell us how bad WE ARE for 'hurting mother earth'.(Last time I checked, we were Created in HIS Image?) Um, could someone point out in Scripture where the Lord commands us to LOVE the earth? I think it's Love the Lord, Your God,and Love your neighbor as your self............I see nothing about the earth. Worship the CreatOR not the creatED. I'm not saying you shouldn't try to save the environment if you think that it needs saving. I'm simply saying don't let things that stem from fear of something control your life in such a way that you lose all of your life's joy and your capacity for reasonable and rational thinking.We cannot save it.Those ridiculous programs at school and church on how "kids can save the earth" are just teaching the babies how to be Idolaters!!!! THE EARTH is doomed to a fiery end. Read Matthew 23-25, and Revelation. Anyone who thinks that (a) man has ruined the earth AND (b) man can save the earth, worships a different god. God Created it, God will Judge it, God will destroy it. And there is NOTHING man can do to 'speed that up' or 'slow that down'. AND anyone who thinks they can........is blinded by satan, an idolater and worships man and earth, not God almighty. Jill Cooper and Tawra Kellam are frugal living experts and the editors of Living on a Dime. 07:36 - Friday, July 11, 2008 - post comment
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