"If the government is really ticked at you, it wouldn't take much to shut down your car, your phone, your locks, your lights, your appliances, your mattress pad, your toilet … do you see where I'm going with this? You would become socially paralyzed."
If they take away everything, then you have nothing to lose. More likely, they will allow you just enough to scrape by, with a full workload to keep you occupied and out of trouble.
Winston Smith in the book 1984, for example, was socially paralyzed while having full-time employment, and he only broke out of it briefly before being stomped back down.
The solution is to thrive on a spiritual level, creatively deal with the physical deprivation, and wait on God.
A couple months ago, I put a piece of paper on the fridge--our Scammer Prayer List. We were often getting multiple scam calls per day, and while probably none of them told us their real name, God stills knows who they are and where they live, and He surely has something better for them to do all day than bother people like us.
Two names went onto the list, and these scammers were duly prayed for--they still are--and suddenly the number of scam calls dropped, by a lot. The list still has only two names on it.
The Bible says that "the gates of hell" will not prevail against Christ's Church.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
