More On Simple Faith

Well, its a whole new world now that the crops are in! Was cleaning up some winter mess all day. First time there was ever a chance. Still didn’t get to the garden but that’s coming quick! This evening second daughter and myself rounded up the ducks in the yard and decided they didn’t like it here. So we had us a “duck drive”. Kinda like a cattle drive but a whole lot slower. Got them through the yard, onto the gravel township road and a quarter mile later they were in a pond we had made a few years back. Ended up carrying one drake the last leg of the drive cause he tired out from the long distance. A permanent pond, kinda deep and the place is a duck’s paradise! We even have a sand beach on the north end for them! The pond is surrounded by lush grass and the pasture/field that its in has tight net wire fencing all around it to keep out large predators. There is no shelter there for them, but I figured what the heck, they were outside in the yard here all winter. They never, ever went inside the building, they slept under the pine trees n the back yard and it didn’t matter if it was thirty below with strong winds they were outside, day and night. never watered them all winter, they ate snow. Fed em some shell corn and that was it, nothing else. Now we put a dash of grain on the sand beach for them tonight and the last time I was over that way they were cleaning themselves up near the grain. Some happy ducks in my opinion!

On the faith side of things, besides the faith that them ducks will have it made over in the big pond, I’m brushing up on faith, simple faith. And with simple faith about the only requirement is to know who God is and who we are in God. Old Smith Wigglesworth, a preacher from days gone by, in the first half of the last century said it well, “only believe”. Simple as that. Now today we have allot of distractions, more than anytime in history. Nowadays we are bombarded from every angle with things that cause disbelief and shake our faith if not totally destroy it. I know for myself I stay away from allot of media, and I will say sometimes even Christian media. Because remember, even if its Christian radio or the like that doesn’t mean that the world view isn’t coming across loud and clear. Does this mean that I’m a recluse? the answer is no. But I do know that being overwhelmed with the world’s views will eat away at the simple faith that I have. I keep up with the news somewhat, but don’t let it become an obsession.

Over the last few years we’ve done away with most magazines, newspapers, and television. What we have discovered is that the quality of life has risen by leaps and bounds. Just imagine with television alone, the hours and hours every week, the hundreds of hours or maybe thousands of hours a year that a person eats away from their life here on earth sitting there watching the world instill it’s wayward faith in a person. Just imagine how much of the Word a person could get into them if even a small percentage of those hours used on the world system media were used instead for study of the Word of God. Eternity is a long time and this life is a vapor, here one minute and gone the next and what has a person accomplished inviting the system that will be destroyed into their very home. Now don’t take me for some legalistic person concerning religion. No way!

Years ago I had always wondered why the Bible, (the little I knew about it), why there was miracles and wonders and all of that and there was nothing like that today. These past few years since turning away from world media and getting into the Word I understand. Now some folks say that the age of miracles was only for that generation that started the church. That God doesn’t work miracles anymore because now we have the Bible and miracles aren’t needed. I couldn’t disagree more with anything! Around the world God is moving with miracles and signs and wonders like never before! I personally have witnessed several. In the “poorer” nations miracles are common place on the mission field and evangelistic drives.

God promised to be with us with miracles, signs and wonders as we reach the lost. Miracles were not really made for in the church building! I never really realized that until lately. Miracles, signs and wonders are to back up the preaching of the Gospel to the unsaved. And they are happening at astounding rates everywhere around the globe. Yes I’ve seen miracles and I know that the reason was so that I would have that faith to obey God’s Word and do what I’m called to do. The miracles, signs and wonders that I’ve mostly seen were right here on the farm in normal day to day life. And I know that many of these would have never have happened if I was immersed in the world. But the simpler life gets, and I’m not truely talking about back to the land stuff here, I’m talking about going about the normal day with God in mind and letting the world do what it does and don’t let it bother a person too much, the more a person notices things that show God in total control. The mind isn’t wrapped up in the falsehoods of the world. Anybody getting this?

As I wrote on the last post, I’ll be touching more and more on this shortly, first because it really interests me and also because this is the way of faith the Bible talks about. This isn’t a denominational way or anything like that. Without faith a person cannot please God, that’s what the Bible says. Well, I want to please God! No matter what a person is doing for a living, whether its farming or working a job, this is reality beyond all earthly realities! This is from God! This will continue!