As mentioned in my last article, mindset is most important. Whatever we choose to do in life whether it is to be a brain surgeon, a military General, a biker, a lawyer or anything else, our odds of success is much greater if we have the right mindset. It must be a mindset of independence rather than a colonized mindset.
Proverbs 22:7 says: “The rich rule over the poor. The borrower becomes the lenders slave.” We can learn skills as we go along but first and of foremost importance to freedom is getting out of debt. Debt is slavery. When we realize this we have turned around to where we can see the gate of freedom.
Many people blame banks and talk about how evil they are but no one twisted our arm to make us sign one the line. We willingly sold ourselves into slavery and we can set ourselves free.
The way to know how much of a slave you are is to ask yourself this question: “How much of what you use and eat every day do you provide for yourself?” Sadly for most people the answer is “Nothing”.
Our society has been spoiled with a huge supply of everything we need and also everything we are seduced into wanting to the point that we have no skills of independence and are completely at the mercy of a system designed from the start to enslave us.
Think about this for a while. In the 1930s if the power grid in America had failed for thirty days probably no one would have died. Now let’s imagine that today the power grid failed for thirty days. Have you got it? Millions would die! And this, my friends, is just one aspect of the giant web of slavery that has spread over us today.
In the 1700s industrialists wanting to build factories in America couldn’t find laborers because most everyone had land and was providing for themselves almost everything they needed. What little they wanted in the way of things like coffee and sugar they traded farm surplus like eggs and other things for.
That soon changed with the invention of machinery and the introduction of “time saving” gadgets in the mid- 1800s.
A 93 year old woman once told me that before they got all the “time saving” things that they seemed to have a lot more free time because now everyone is rushing off to work to pay for those “time saving “ things. Think about it. How do you get the money to buy the things that are offered to you in a seductive way? You work for a slave master who gives you a piece of paper to present to other slave masters in exchange for the goods you want.
Next time we will start looking at some solid ways you can cut your expenses so you can get closer to the gate of freedom. Stick with us. Reality is about to show up!
