Our nation is at war. The Bible prophesied this war when it was written in Ephesians 6:12 that our war is not physical, that it is a war of ideas, attitudes and values.
Look around. The stolen election, people cowering in fear from sickness, corporations endeavoring to herd us in directions we would never go freely, censorship and fear that the world needs us to save it. There is a great distrust of our most sacred institutions; the government, our schools, our medical community, the courts, our news media and even many of the churches.
Our nation has been pillaged and raped from the inside. We have allowed darkness, confusion and lies. Weeds have been allowed to root all through our society because we do not know the Truth well enough to fight them.
The answers for saving our country, saving our own lives are found in the same Bible our country was born under. Within those scriptures every person can find health, prosperity, joy and a peace that passes understanding. Religion is burdensome. The law of God is meant to bring us to the freedom of repentance and to the gift of His mercy but there is no life in the law. Jesus is Life. Pulling near to Jesus is intoxicating, He makes you want to wiggle all over like a happy puppy! Stress and worry are not of God.
If you desire to help fight this war what you need to do is put on the armor of God. Ephesians 6 further explains that our armor is truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation and the Word of God is our sword. If you don’t understand that just ask God to teach you and He will. Receive freedom yourself first and then you will know how to free others.
Our own young people are calling for our country to be taken over by the Communists. We have not taught them well. We were silent and double-minded because we did not know the Truth ourselves. We have been too busy chasing after health, money, power and position. We think the Bible is just exhorts us to “Be good enough.”. It doesn’t. Jesus says, “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48.
We are washing the windows while our house is burning. We believe that the fire is just a difference of opinion. STOP with the “UNITY” rhetoric. We cannot have both, we cannot have a strategy of “all of the above”. We must choose the kind of seed we want to harvest and plant THAT seed. We have to pull the weeds in our society, in our own lives, or we will be overcome.
As every farmer knows, you cannot eradicate weeds if you do not know the difference between a weed and good plant. God is the Master Gardener. He constantly teaches us from the natural laws all around us. Learn from Him.
Author: Janna Swanson
Janna Swanson helps her husband Paul farm in NW Iowa with their two young daughters. Since 2013 Janna has volunteered her time and energy for her community. She was a key member of the Preservation of Rural Iowa Alliance that protected landowners from the Rock Island Clean Line. From there she helped start and facilitated the grassroots group, The Coalition for Rural Property Rights to help protect community members from industrial wind installations. She is also a board member of National Wind Watch, a 25-year online collection of information of the industrial wind opposition from around the world. Most importantly Janna is a follower of Christ and seeks to help others to know and understand Him. Yet because she is also seeking deepening her own knowledge and understanding she welcomes critical, constructive debate. No one has the corner on truth, we all see “through a glass, darkly”. (I Corinthians 13:12)
