I’ve been forced to live off government “benefits” since my twenties. This vexes my soul.
When I try to share these moral qualms with fellow Christians they laugh at me. Or pat me on the back and reassure me. But nobody hears me out.
Living off government benefits for disability—or SSI—disturbs me. Even bothers my conscience. Here is why.
Receiving money from Caesar indebts me to him. The State stands in the place of a husband or father or church. In a sense, I am saying “Caesar is lord!” by taking these handouts. The state can look upon me as its property or dependent—like its wife or child—and glory in how loving and merciful it is in looking after me.
Caesar has the right to tell me how to spend his money. It always has strings attached. The state is not doing this out of love or kindness or generosity! The state may force me to go back on the mind-altering drugs that were slowly destroying my body and soul. Many in the church insist that these neurotoxins or “medicines” only help people. My body belongs to God. He wouldn’t want me to destroy the Temple of His Holy Spirit to collect from Caesar.
Caesar forbids me to try to support myself, commanding me to eat the bread of idleness instead.
Caesar forbids me chaste marriage. The state encourages living in fornication instead—as long as I remain dependent on the handouts.
Ancient Rome had a welfare program. But nowhere in the epistles to the early Church were believers in need encouraged to apply for the dole.
Our State is growing more ungodly and anti-Christian every day. Should I really look to them to be my Provider?
I remember two stories. One of a class in communist China where a teacher told her children to pray to God for bread. They lifted their heads to find empty desk tops. Then she made them pray to Chairman Mao or the Communist Party. While they did so, she put a tiny piece of bread in front of each child.
The other was of a nursing home run by the state. A number of elderly residents were denied meals as long as they continued to pray to God before eating. This was in America. Separation of church and state. Only the state owns everything and will deny you food for praying to its rival. The one true God Who gave them the resources which they deny His faithful worshippers.
I would rather not rely on such a godless system anymore.
My disability is iatrogenic. Mostly autoimmune, but I believe I’ve suffered neurological damage to. I struggle to organize my home and often am reduced to tears by my efforts. Loss of emotional continence goes with the territory of a damaged nervous system.
My family thought I had Lyme Disease for a while, since they never thought doctors would routinely cause disability with their standard treatments. Doctors don’t know about iatrogenic injury because they don’t care.
My disability was created by the state/medical system I am still forced to depend on. My gut still cannot process micronutrients after 25 years of SSRI drugs that caused me years of chronic depression with no breaks between and no ability to experience positive emotions.
I feel more normal, but tire easily and often get sick.
There are laws to punish “runaways” like me. So, I relocated to “nowhere” and begged my family to keep quiet.
If I behave myself and avoid shrinks, I should avoid imprisonment. They can lock you up indefinitely without due process at a shrink’s say so.
My story is that I suffer from a chronic autoimmune disease.
Taking charity by remote from a bunch of faceless bureaucrats is very dehumanizing. Some would think it’s better than getting charity IRL with human faces and names attached. But it isn’t. There’s no gratitude. No love. All about soulless, dehumanizing remote control.
No. The State does not love you.
A lot more people are headed for welfare land. Because of a stunning lack of discernment or intellectual curiosity among my fellow Christians a number of them don’t see the Beast System.
It’s coming at us through the Nanny State’s alliance with FREE Big Pharma treatments for non-diseases, causing massive damage requiring disability checks to survive. They will own those who accept their “benefits.” Body and soul.
I would appreciate prayers—from you believers—that my health remains stable so I can work 25-30 hours a week from home. My idea for a cottage industry is a printing press for ephemera, booklets/chapbooks, and limited-edition books. The kind that would appeal to scrapbooking grannies who dabble in genealogy.
Lord willing, it will start off with my printer and Canva. Maybe an online store for a short time. But I want to move it to IRL at the local level.
An old-fashioned fine letterpress. Run without electricity.
Mark 6:54- The people recognized Jesus and ran through that whole region, carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was. And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Luke 18:35- As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by,” they told him.
So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Jesus stopped and directed that the man be brought to Him.
When he had been brought near, Jesus asked him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” “Lord,” he said, “let me see again.” “Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, glorifying God. And all the people who saw this gave praise to God.
Rachel Nichols,
The Lord Jesus has apparently opened your spiritual eyes to see the glorious light of His soon coming. Not unlike that blind beggar named Bartimaeus, don’t let the Angel of Light’s clergymen discourage you from faithfully calling to Jesus and receive His loving healing touch!
He will also set you free from Socialism’s eugenic Security System of the Marxist Beast’s UN Global Village as revealed here: http://107.6.21.207/Subjects/Communism/Socialism/SS-IntlMarkOfTheBeast.pdf
We live in a world in which many of us have more value to our rulers as consumers of medical interventions that as workers or soldiers.
And if you are a worker bee, you better just do your job and keep your mouth shut.
Best of luck in your future endeavors.