So Trauma? Sew Trauma!

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com

 

 

If you have been a listener for a while you have heard me say again and again that men only change when there is trauma in their life. Its when the doctor says, you got about 2 years left at this pace. Or your wife says “I’m out”, or your kids say Dad you are a piece of shi… caca, Your boss fires you…. trauma makes us change or die.

But along those same lines trauma also not only makes us change but it changes some of our core beliefs in a heartbeat.
let me back up a few years… the great depression… you probably remember it from history class. Americans hit skid row, the economy tanked and it was a struggle to pay the most basic needs. But before that what happened? In the middle of the great depression right in the middle of 1929 the stock market crashed… but it truly didn’t affect most people. Most people lived the same life, because most people did not have stocks or bonds or investments for their retirement. Only 2.5% were actually affected… however just before the crash the election of President Hoover was the biggest landslide in our history. And then the stock market crashed… and it took a while for the crisis to hit. I will dumb it down for us to save time. The stock market crashed, Then it tanked banks began to fail, people lost their savings. When they lost their savings they stopped spending. When they stopped spending businesses failed. When businesses failed, banks failed. And when banks fail people lose their savings… and it becomes a maddening circle of loss

So where am I going with this, well the next election was actually another record slide of votes to get Hoover out of office.

And with that the American people were ripe to adopt and believe things that now in place are bankrupting America. 

For example The Social Security Act was passed in 1935 372 to 33 in the House of Representatives, and 77 to 6 in the Senate.

Dirty politics caught a major head wind with an alleged coup by wealthy businessmen to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt, with a Marine General named Smedley Butler taking his place as dictator. And owning gold became illegal. And all these things people were fine with… because a crisis had seduced them and primed them for these shifts… they were looking for cheap solutions in crisis that would ultimately crush us. 

Now you’re asking Garth what does this have to do with me. Well today is not a history lesson as so much as a warning… your choices build and build and build and once that levy of bad choices break, you are easily manipulated to do and believe and act on even more dangerous tactics. They seem quick and easy, but in the end they are like a prison cell.

You don’t get the love and attention you feel you deserve from your spouse… so you make some bad choices… you end up cheating on your spouse, and now that you have rationalized it, you will sleep with anyone who fills that void… and in time you are a prisoner to sex, pornography - AND the hopes of a healthy  relationship are out the window! Yes thats an easy example, but there are hundreds more out there… just look in the mirror. 

Galatians 6:7, 8 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

REAP… not just get back what you sowed, but a hundred fold on each act of stupidity!  A literal harvest with just a couple of seeds … 20 bad seeds don’t equal 20 bad circumstances… it equals a harvest of bad circumstances, dependencies and enslavements. And don’t miss the nuance here… sow to the flesh means you simply sow to what feels right at the time, its almost automatic, its like the seed that falls from the bag and gets planted by mistake in the cracks and the rocks and the weeds…

Don’t let the struggles of life cause you to lose what you truly believe in and what scripture teaches. Don’t let trauma seduce you into making cheap feel good decisions. Sow what matters!