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What is Good Stewardship?

What is Good Stewardship?

It is doing our best to do a good job on taking care of a world that belongs to our Lord. He gave it to us to manage, take care of, and to live by a good example of Christ to others. This includes physically and spiritually.   Society distracts and markets us to accept what is outside of the ways of the Lord.  It puts us into a mindset of ownership, greed, and often neglect, rather than that of Stewardship.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”  


 
Genesis 2:15  
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.  

Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.

 Luke 12:42-46
And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.  


Timothy 6:7-8

For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.  


Corinthians 4:2 
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.  


Definition Steward:

5. In Scripture and theology, a minister of Christ, whose duty is to dispense the provisions of the gospel, to preach its doctrines and administer its ordinances.  
It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 1 Cor 4.

We must become biblically based consumers. For being a good example of Christ, is not just in preaching, but in all things that we do in life.

Chronicles 7:1

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  
 
 
 

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Permaculture

What is Permaculture and why is it important for good stewardship?

Part one.  


This is the literal explanation of permaculture:

https://www.permaculturenews.org/what-is-permaculture/

Its importance is incumbent in the explanation above, however,  lets look at commercial agriculture for this lesson and why we need to evaluate why things need to change.

■ It requires large plots of land used for single crop production.

■ They till the soil which kill of hinder the beneficial microorganisms forming below the ground, that actually improve the quality of the plant being produced.  (See my later coming post on no till no dig)

■The heavy use agrichem products to address pestilence and disease, which causes pollution  to air, soil, and water.

• Even though some are labeled  as 'safe' for human and animals, the study on long term detriment  to our health just isn't there. However,  you can see it in the growing disease in the population (these chemicals are not the only factors, but large contributors).

• Remember that the organic label only means that less chems are used, not necessarily as friendly as we like to think.

• Then you have the destruction of 'weeds' native species that are often invaluable source of medicine and even food, or they would have assisted crop growth and soil replenishing.

• Prompts the creation of genetic  modification, which falls under the definition of sorcery, by perverting the nature of creation and unforeseen impact that it has, most often in the name of greed.  Remember not all 'science' is the same or moral.

■Government subsidies are intended to assist the farmers income, right?  Possibly, but there's a side to it that most people are unaware of. If you went to college and had a good economics teacher, they'd be honest with you.


• Subsidies create excessive waste, resulting in extra crops that are neither sold or given away, they are destroyed,  therefore using extra lands beyond crop bumpering, that could have been replenished or used for other purposes. We are talking tens millions of dollars worth.

• Government uses them to  control the market, as in price fixing.  Excess crops hirt the price they wish to fix the price to, and therefore pay the farmer to destroy the crop.

•  There are thousands of varieties of crops you never see in the store because the Government doesn't want it in the market.

• It is extremely rare to find a program that's approved to distribute this food to poor, homeless, or other impoverished nations.  


(* Sources: Economic text books, news articles, farmers themselves )

■Let us not forget the Dustbowl and plague level pestilence that it attracts, or even weather destruction of a crop because the location is concentrated.

The more we support this, the more destruction we bring upon ourselves.

• To destroy and waste food willingly is immoral and a sin. Especially when people are starving, or it could be repurposed.  It is bad enough that they take our tax dollars to do so, but if we are aware, we can at least take steps to reduce our  participation with this system by changing our consumer direction, pray about it, and help share the information with others.

• We invite disease and illness through the mass use of toxic chemicals and destroy sources of natural medicine, polinators, safe genetics, animals health, and our own health.

It is not Good Stewardship.

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