{"id":1380,"date":"2019-05-26T02:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bfeet.net\/wp\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2019-06-09T03:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T03:19:43","slug":"the-feed-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bfeet.net\/wp\/2019\/05\/26\/the-feed-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feed Lot."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Living Beyond the Feed Lot!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

     For the last two months Craig and I have been staying in a quiet RV park that is close to where he has been working. God blessed us with a good site, with shade and water, He even made us get good sleep in our tent. We have been blessed with the peace of God here. But there is one thing that has got me thinking, we are less than a mile from a large dairy and feedlot. We drive by the feed lot every time we go to town. The bus gets covered in bugs just driving by, the smell is awful, the cows are in large dirt pens with pole roofs for shade and troughs to eat out of, and at night the methane gas fills the air so thick I\u2019m not sure why all the cows haven\u2019t died yet. Craig and I have come to call this \u201csad cow farming\u201d as the cows can not be happy living in the dirt and never seeing grass.<\/span><\/p>\n

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     Growing up in Arkansas, I got to see dairies that had happy cows, they had lots of grass, people that cared for them and lots of room to graze. With this in mind as we drive by I would feel sad for the poor cows that are a product of our modern way of life and wander what would they do if they could get out? Then one day I saw that one had gotten out of the fence. I thought\u201d He won\u2019t be there very long there\u2019s a fresh field of grass right across the street. \u201c So every time we would go to town I would look for the cow that was out and see if he had left the lot. And to my surprise he never left, in fact he seemed confused as to why his friends were on the other side. He would wander up one side and down the other. He would eat at the trough with all the other cows and he would sleep in the corner all sad and dejected.<\/span><\/p>\n

     As I watched this play out I kept asking myself, \u201cWhy would the cow choose to stay? There is green grass right across the road.\u201d My conclusion was that cows are herding animals and as such they have a strong bond to their \u201cfriends\u201d, he would not leave, he had never been beyond the feed lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

     God taught me a lesson with that cow. God didn\u2019t create cows to live in feed lots, (It would be like saying God created us to live and enjoy concentration camps!) But the sinful world system has created them. We as humans are trapped in our own sinful reality, just as much a slave to the system as the cows in the lot, but God has made a way for us to be free, to leave the lot and to go to the green pastures He has prepared for us. How many of us as Christians have been freed from the feed lot of sin and still refuse to leave, not realizing that this is not the life God has saved us for?<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us learn to live beyond the feed lot!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I John 5:18-21<\/strong><\/span>
\n     We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.<\/span><\/span>
\nWe know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.<\/span>
\nAnd we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.<\/span>
\nLittle children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings from Deborah <>< kow that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps<\/span><\/span><\/span> himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We know that we are of God, and <\/span><\/span><\/span>the whole world lies <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>under the sway of <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>the wicked one.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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