Steve Quayle says we might be seeing a bank holiday next week starting on Veterans’ Day. You notice the core of the White House, along with some 200 major CEOs, will be in Mumbai during that day. Good time to be out of town, no? But Paul Watson at Infowars figures it’s a hoax and more instructive for the simple presence and timing of such a rumor. Yet again, Half Past Human asserts we will hit some major tipping point which would start that day, and run through the 14th.
Consider the source. Those reports come from sites I don’t read much because of the constant hype. That doesn’t mean they can’t be right about this, only that I find them highly unreliable for one reason or another. But the issue does raise an important question. You see, we are very much likely to experience a global economic disaster in the coming months. Indeed, it’s already in our laps, but it’s the sort of thing which takes awhile to fully realize. What you see right now is the lack of panic which should be there because TPTB are struggling to keep the facade in place.
What are you going to do? This is going to hurt. At a minimum, food prices will soar compared to income for everyone. If any of these predictions bears so much as a grain of truth, it’s going to hurt a lot very quickly.
Know that you cannot change what is coming. It’s ordained by God, and we have no excuse for letting ourselves get into this mess. This is divine justice. You individually may not have contributed to the situation, but we live in a world we don’t control. The question is what can you control?
Only your mindset. You can choose to face this disaster in the same justice which brings it. What should we have been doing all along? Do justice, stop trying to amass a big pile of worldly possessions, focus on what is in your hands today. Frankly, that little sentence of just three ideas means turning all of Western Civilization on its head. The path of Christian Mysticism demands it.
Justice is about people. Property never trumps people in God’s eyes. Don’t get lost in specifics of this or that hypothetical situation; absorb the principle. (That’s another major flaw in Western Civilization.) Place your needs in the same basket as those you touch. None of that bogus equality business, this is about caring and having compassion as opposed to granting yourself license to walk on others for any excuse. You’ll never get it right, but you most certainly have no hope for any measure of justice unless you reach for divine truth which outstrips any effort to write rules about it. Yes, it starts with your own kin, but nobody is your enemy. There are simply some folks who consider you their enemy, and there’s little you can do about that. Do what you can.
Stop worrying about tomorrow. Don’t be a sucker for the false dichotomy; it’s not a choice between “save for a rainy day” versus “live for the moment.” The former is ego reasoning and the latter is childish fearfulness. The real alternative is knowing you can’t do anything about tomorrow, and that piling up resources simply makes you a target for someone capable of taking all those things away. And they will. The world is not cold and cruel, only people are. Creation carries a moral code in itself, and God has promised if you abide by that moral code, you won’t die before your time. So use what you have, however much or little it may be, to answer the demands of justice when it comes to you.
It’s good to understand the vast trends of social and political change in human history. Not from the viewpoint of mechanical efficiency, but evaluate it from the ancient mindset God has always offered to mankind, that basic moral instinct modern society tries so hard to extinguish. That mindset says you can predict to some degree what people will do when this or that changes. But it also says you can do no more than warn them; you cannot steer them without violating that same morality. Concentrations of power and wealth are inherently dangerous, and seldom the result of righteousness. It always invokes the full range of human moral failure. Take care of your own business, and don’t borrow from the sorrows of tomorrow by trying to control things. Don’t look at the job; look at the work. Look at your responsibility for the moment. Learn to love it and embrace it fully as your just destiny, because it is not a matter of what you do, but how you face your duty to God.
Aside from a few prophetic warnings, God does not grant hints about tomorrow. Indeed, that in itself should indicate we are wrong to invest much in human planning. Again, it’s not a question of letting things collapse into crisis management versus wise investment and planning. But if all your predictions are based on mere human wisdom, your plans will fail at some point. Avoid building little empires so high stakes, high pressure management won’t be an issue. If your plans are based on the righteous trust which says, “God will carry me through if I serve Him,” then your plans are likely to go well. That’s all the security you need. Don’t build a business to get wealthy; build a business which brings joy from serving real human needs. If it fails, you’ll have no shame and only shallow sorrow. Train yourself for a career doing what’s right, not what brings you fame and fortune. If God approves, it won’t matter what the world thinks of it. If God disapproves, it won’t matter what you accomplish on this plane.
And it doesn’t matter what Quayle, Watson and Half Past Human have to say, either. Their warnings won’t provoke a sudden frenzy of fearful preparations if you are already certain you can’t do anything better than you are already doing. If your spirit is at peace, you can pull up a seat and watch the fireworks. And even as you weep over the vast ocean of human folly, you can rest knowing the outcome was never in your hands in the first place. You’ll also find nature herself will cooperate in minimizing your personal losses, because she simply obeys the Creator who made her.
