The Economy

Honoring God in Fullness

February 20, 2021 By Robert Truelove Leave a Comment

With so many seeking to become rich through various investments, it is lamentable that so few are seeking this wisdom…

“If I could preach a sermon of two to you on how you could supply your wants and how to obtain wealth, I have no question that our church could be filled with people. This would be the case if we were to teach poor people how they could get rich, to teach those who are disgraced how they could get honor, to teach men how they could have good and prosperous journeys, and the like. But I am teaching you a lesson from God rather than man and this time, and that is much better. It is a better lesson for one to learn how to honor God in fullness than it is to learn how he can get full.”

—Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646, citation from “Contentment, Prosperity, and God’s Glory”, Reformation Heritage Books, p. 10)

The True Narrative is Underneath

June 8, 2020 By Robert Truelove Leave a Comment

There is a narrative being told that underlies the narrative that people think they are following. This narrative is paradoxically both truth and lie. The true narrative because it is the story that is shaping the world around us and the lie because it is not, in truth, the narratives we accept at face value.

“Racism”, “homophobia”, “income inequality”, “equality”, “intersectionality”, “socialism”, “pro-choice”, “pro-life”, “capitalism”, “constitutional”, etc… It’s highly likely that you find yourself identifying very strongly with some of these terms and hating others. We think there is a right side and a wrong side. Which is true enough, but from our perspective it is hard to see that all sides are wrong.

But wait just a minute! you think. Truth is not subjective! A thing is either wrong or it is right. Even subjectivists prove themselves to be absolutists in the wash. “Truth is subjective” is after all, definitive and rather absolute.

To say that all sides are wrong pertaining to the rifts in our society is not to say that there is no truth. It is to say that the truth is elsewhere.

The truth is not with those who most loudly scream against “racism.” That word has been so distorted from its original definition and made so ambiguous as to now lack any definition that is generally accepted. This is just one example. Social “equality” has gone from meaning the same set of weights for all to special legal privileges for some based upon gender, race and whether or not one is a sexual deviant—for who has ever heard of violence against a straight, white male labeled as a “hate crime?”

The truth is not with the “capitalists” or the “pro-lifers”. When have the former ever waged war on fake, crony capitalism or the anti-capitalistic interference of central banks? What pro-life candidate has ever put an end to abortion?

The truth is not with those who say they are on the side of the marginalized. The most derelict and wasted communities in our nation are governed by those who claim to be their champions. What has it gotten them?

The truth is all too often not in our churches. Church leaders are far too easily enticed with the easy mammon of pandering to this side or that within our society and simply mirror the lie that is all around us.

What is the truth? The truth is, it is all a lie. “Racism” no longer has coherent meaning and only serves to further provoke racial division. “Pro-life” has done little to end the murder of the unborn. “Equality” means special legal treatment for some. “Capitalism” means competitive legal advantages for corporate giants and so it goes.

The truth is underneath all of this. The truth is, all of these narratives are about POWER and those who lust for it. The rest are the lemmings who empower them.

The truth underneath is that those in power who stand behind these labels care very little for these things. Such are simply vehicles thru which they manipulate the masses. Conservative or progressive, the powers that be are thirsty for the very same thing. POWER!

I am altogether sick of them all. They lie because they are of their father…

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

John 8:44

You would do far batter and have more joy if you simply unplugged them. Shut down those constant streams of godless propaganda into your life. Unplug the media. Unplug from social media. Turn off the radio. Log out!

In the silence, plugin to the narrative of the church of Jesus Christ. Be indoctrinated by Scripture. Find solidarity with fellow lovers of Christ. Make your cause one with the Kingdom of Heaven. Praise the Lord of all Creation and LIVE!

I am content to let the world burn, for it shall until the time of His coming. The gospel truth is you do not have to burn with it.

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

John 12:47 & 48

When the Medical Experts Are Not Enough

April 28, 2020 By Robert Truelove 1 Comment

CNN reported that Dr. Chris Murray, the director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Help Metrics and Evaluation, has said yesterday…

“It’s a safer strategy to get the number of infections in the community down to a really low level, and then testing and contact tracing and isolation can work.”

Sounds reasonable…what could go wrong?

Well…His team said Georgia should not reopen again until JUNE 28th.

*facepalm*

If Georgia and the rest of the nation remain in “lockdown” for two more months, we’re going to reopen to something akin to a post-apocalyptic scenario. Just look at what is already happening with jobs, supply chains, key indicators like the oil crises, and so on.

This is a matter that we SHOULD NOT JUST BE LEAVING TO THE SCIENTISTS. Economists are just as important! Medical health experts can only see the Novel Coronavirus. They fail to consider the cost in human suffering and even lives resulting from keeping the economy intubated for another 2 months. They appear to have no conception of the economic/social/health consequences of another 2 months of lockdown.

We need to get things going again and we need to exercise some common sense. Masks and social distancing in public and those at risk for severe Covid 19 should remain in isolation. Instead of these never-ending, economy killing lockdowns, we should have public education campaigns about how to keep both yourself and others safe as we return to work. Apart from the elderly, there is a reason the least educated portion of the population is the hardest hit in most places.

THE END OF PERSONAL PEACE AND AFFLUENCE

April 22, 2020 By Robert Truelove Leave a Comment

Your personal peace and affluence will return with a V-shaped recovery. YAY!!!!!!!!

Crude oil dropping to -$40 and the June futures pressing it towards $0…no problem. It’s gonna spring back!

The stock market rebounding a bit in spite of the fact that most of the economy has been stopped for over a month has nothing to do with the Fed’s monetary policies and, even it if did, it will continue to successfully print money forever and ever without devaluing the dollar.

Physical silver and gold trading with record high premiums with gold and silver bullion being widely sold out don’t mean nuthin.

Real estate is holding fast. There is even a shortage of inventory in many markets. Historic highs in mortgage forbearance won’t effect the market. Mass foreclosures can’t possibly be on the way and lenders are going to continue to qualify just as many people for mortgages so the demand will continue to keep the real estate market healthy. Also, please ignore all of the people who have lost their jobs who will not now be buying property.

Yep America…your personal peace and affluence is secure. Nothing to see here.

So seriously now…Call me a doom and gloomer. Desire smooth words. But folks, lies are not helpful. If this is all going where it looks like it is going…what should you be doing NOW? If you had strong reason to think we are upon the brink of the history’s largest economic crises, what would you be doing differently?

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

—Proverbs 22:3, 27:12