Simple Living in Practice, Lesson #14
Let me develop a thought or two about simple living by God's design in reference to the news we posted in the previous post. Many fish of the Great Lakes died last year, and obviously this year a similar scenario is on it's way. People worry about "infected water" and trying to prevent the virus that befalls the fish from spreading, and their main concern is obviously the sports-fishing industry. To provide them with strong and healthy fish populations is the goal of all the measures taken and restrictions made.
See, you can do the right thing for the wrong reason, and you will be held accountable for your reasons too, and not just for what you did. It is certainly a good thing to try and keep the fish alive, but if you do it for economic reasons, and not as part of the stewardship God appointed to men in Gen 1:28, you are nothing but one of those false prophets Jesus talks about in Matthew 7:15-23, for even if what you do looks good, you are still not doing it in His name, and therefore work iniquity, lawlessness. Just like you can think all you want about how to turn your Sunday into more of a Lord's day, unless you read the bible and do what God tells you to do on the Sabbath (including the specifics of the day itself as the last, not the first day of the week), whatever you do will be for naught. You don't buy bread rolls on Sunday mornings anymore because you don't want to further Sunday work, and Sunday work has been an issue in your church for a while now? Sounds good, but God says, not only should you do no work, but also should you neither buy nor sell on His holy day, and you should rest, and study, not to mention that the Sabbath is not a Sunday... No matter how many religious books and magazine articles you read on the matter, unless you rely solely and completely on God's word as practical guidance, the chances that Jesus will not know you on the Last Day are fairly high.
Why do I say all this ? What does it have to do with simple living ?
The simple lesson from these examples is this: Make sure that you do not come up with your own design when it comes to your simple life, make sure that your manual for life is not men's tradition, not even church tradition, but God's will and Law-Word alone. Teach your children what God says when you home school them, and not something oh so very emotional, but unbiblical. They may believe now with all their heart that churches that aren't charismatic are dead churches by virtue of the fact that their members don't jump during services, but one day your children will be old enough to realize that they made a fool of themselves by proclaiming such nonsense... Beware.
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See, you can do the right thing for the wrong reason, and you will be held accountable for your reasons too, and not just for what you did. It is certainly a good thing to try and keep the fish alive, but if you do it for economic reasons, and not as part of the stewardship God appointed to men in Gen 1:28, you are nothing but one of those false prophets Jesus talks about in Matthew 7:15-23, for even if what you do looks good, you are still not doing it in His name, and therefore work iniquity, lawlessness. Just like you can think all you want about how to turn your Sunday into more of a Lord's day, unless you read the bible and do what God tells you to do on the Sabbath (including the specifics of the day itself as the last, not the first day of the week), whatever you do will be for naught. You don't buy bread rolls on Sunday mornings anymore because you don't want to further Sunday work, and Sunday work has been an issue in your church for a while now? Sounds good, but God says, not only should you do no work, but also should you neither buy nor sell on His holy day, and you should rest, and study, not to mention that the Sabbath is not a Sunday... No matter how many religious books and magazine articles you read on the matter, unless you rely solely and completely on God's word as practical guidance, the chances that Jesus will not know you on the Last Day are fairly high.
Why do I say all this ? What does it have to do with simple living ?
The simple lesson from these examples is this: Make sure that you do not come up with your own design when it comes to your simple life, make sure that your manual for life is not men's tradition, not even church tradition, but God's will and Law-Word alone. Teach your children what God says when you home school them, and not something oh so very emotional, but unbiblical. They may believe now with all their heart that churches that aren't charismatic are dead churches by virtue of the fact that their members don't jump during services, but one day your children will be old enough to realize that they made a fool of themselves by proclaiming such nonsense... Beware.
Technorati Tags: simple life, home schooling, Christian ladies, God's creation, nature, homesteading, self sufficiency, separation, SAHM, plural marriage, polygamy, dominion covenant, multi-generational family, Joshuah's House
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