Introduction

Today, I will share a very interesting topic with you which is peasant mentality. I have never seen a person with a peasant mentality prosper in life. I will give you a very typical example, my cousin is a typical person with a peasant mentality. He was born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, and lived his whole life like that. Thank God, I grew up through reading, receiving education, then going to university, and then graduating. My life has progressed step by step like that.

What is Peasant Mentality?

If you live in the countryside, you will see the topics that these farmers talk about, and the things they care about and struggle with. Then you will know what is called peasant mentality.

Actually, my research on this matter started from the education I received from the Party since I was a child. I found that the Party's education actually dealt with some peasant mentality. Why do I say this? The Chinese peasant uprising, that is, the Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan, was wiped out, and when it was wiped out, Zeng Guofan killed everyone in Nanjing.

This Hong Xiuquan is a typical example of peasant mentality. Besides Hong Xiuquan, there was also Li Zicheng. After he destroyed the Ming Dynasty, he went to Beijing and became the emperor for 18 days, and then the Qing troops entered the pass, ending his imperial career. In fact, these people all have strong, deep-rooted peasant mentalities.

Later, when the Chinese Communist Party established New China, it also needed to constantly break these peasant mentalities in that era. At that time, rural cooperatives, and the collective training of production teams were organized. Did these things break the peasant mentality? No. So later, after Deng Xiaoping came into power, he implemented the household responsibility system, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of these units and the enthusiasm of the farmers through the peasant mentality.

Therefore, I think Deng Xiaoping had a deep understanding of human nature. Why did everyone not want to work when eating from the same big pot in the past, and the land was desolate and everyone was lazy? That is peasant mentality. Now, China's farmers must develop to a new stage, which is highly automated and mechanized production.

In the past few days, I discovered a very interesting phenomenon, that is, Shenzhen's urban expansion is very fast, so it acquires farmers' land. After I arrived in Shenzhen, local friends told me that in Shenzhen, there are many people driving Ferraris as security guards. Why? Because their land was requisitioned, and then they became very rich, so they bought cool Ferraris as security guards. Because they are farmers, so they can't do anything.

The most important sign of peasant mentality is selfishness, shortsightedness, and lack of knowledge, lack of vision, lack of Mingding(destination), and lack of dreams. In their lives, small things become big things. In fact, this kind of peasant mentality can make people live without hope. If you think about it a little, what is the purpose of living, you will find that living like this is really meaningless.

Peasant mentality is living for the sake of living. Living for the sake of living, this sounds reasonable, but it also sounds unreasonable. This is the instinct of animals, which is not wanting to die, wanting to live, and all the purpose is to live. If I ask you a question, what is the difference between humans and animals, such as wild cats, wild dogs, or other animals on the mountain? Actually, there is no difference, just living, just for living.

As a Christian, you must not have a too strong peasant mentality. Because Christians live in the world to be above and not beneath, to be the head and not the tail, to live out the glory of God. So they must have a vision, have dreams, have Mingding(destination) on their bodies, and know why they are alive. How to overcome peasant mentality?

How to Overcome Peasant Mentality?

Recognize What Life is All About

In fact, many people don't understand what life is all about. If you don't understand it, how can you live well? If a person doesn't understand what life is all about, he can't live well. Because he doesn't understand how to live well, so people must know what living is all about.

Recognize What Life and Death are All About

I think Confucius' philosophy If you do not know about life, how can you know about death is not the case. In fact, it is that people must know what living is all about, and people will live easily. A person got a terminal illness, and he knew that he had a terminal illness, so he was relieved. I am going to die, so what should I do before I die? He ran to Singapore to see us, and then we led him to believe in the Lord, and after we prayed with him for three months, after an examination, the disease was cured, and the problem became complicated again, because he was alive again and didn't have to die. Today, if you want to know how to simplify living, you have to understand what death is all about.

Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. (2 Corinthians 4:10)

This is Paul's words. If a person sees through the matter of life and death, living will be easy. If you feel tired of living, then I will tell you where the reason is, the reason is that you want to live. If you don't want to live like this, all the problems will become smaller.

A sister I counselled, her reaction to things in the company was the same as other people's reactions. She thought that if her reaction was different from others, she would be isolated and bullied by others in the company. The result is predictable. Is it really that complicated? It's not that complicated.

A person who doesn't even care about death, what else does he care about. Suppose you are going to die tomorrow, do you still care about all these things today? I don't care. At the moment when a person lies in a coffin, the world's currencies, whether it is US dollars, RMB, Japanese yen, or Singapore dollars, immediately become ghost money when he exhales. The paper money that we living people burn for the dead in this world is what we see as ghost money.

Where is my huge difference? I just desperately want to die, I desperately want to leave this world as soon as possible, but I can't leave. What do you call this? This is called overcoming the peasant mentality, right? The peasant mentality is to seek survival, to seek survival for the sake of survival. Then I live to live out the meaning of life.

The Purpose of Man's Life is to Manifest the Glory of God

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years ago, my nose was bleeding, and then a friend of mine's nose was also bleeding. I don't see a doctor, it is too difficult for the doctor to earn my money. Today that person has been dead for many years. Nine months later, I, who didn't see a doctor, lived, but he, who saw a doctor, died. He was lying in the coffin, and I looked through the glass window. The coffin in Singapore has a glass window to show people's faces. Cancer, skinny, like a hole inside, very scary.

But it doesn't matter, I don't care much about this person. I don't care about you when you are alive. Do you think you can do anything to me when you are dead? I don't care either. I said, brother, what exactly happened to us? Nine months ago, we had the same disease. Nine months later, you are lying in the coffin and I am standing outside your coffin. What do you think? The instinct to survive made him lie in the coffin. On the contrary, people who live freely, nothing can deprive you of your life.

Why is this so? Because I see through life and death. In my heart, I am very clear, very clear that I live to manifest the glory of God. I have been constantly giving all my life, I give all that I can give, and then I know that the purpose of man's life is to manifest the glory of God. It doesn't matter if you don't understand what I'm saying, but at least I can be sure of one thing, people who think this way know how to live beautifully and abundantly.

How to live beautifully and how to live abundantly must be recognized. Do you know today? Many corrupt officials are in prison, it is very difficult. If you ask him what his life is all about? I think the story he tells you should be a completely different story from the story he told when he was in power, that is a completely different story.

Why did he want to be greedy at that time? It was to live well, but now he can't live well, and he found that the road was wrong, and he ended up in prison. Today, when they reflect, there may still be many people who don't understand, but who can understand? People who read the Bible can understand. The Bible tells us what life is all about, the Bible tells us how people can live well, and the Bible tells us how to have vision, dreams and Mingding(destination).

People Who Restore the Dreams, Visions, and Mingding(destination) from Abraham Live Well

If a person lives in a peasant mentality, if you become an official, you will be a corrupt official. Because you live to live well, but if you are for the revitalization of the Chinese nation, that is very good. I think the probability of you becoming a corrupt official should still be a little smaller, slightly smaller, but if the people around you are all peasant mentality, living for the sake of living, living for the sake of living better, that is, to pursue these money, and then when you become an official, they will push you into the state of a corrupt official.

This is man, so how to learn to live well, observe the state of people. If you observe carefully, if I had taken a photo at that time, it would be good to be next to the coffin. In fact, I also had all the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma at that time. Even today, my nose is not very healthy. It doesn't matter, I don't live for my nose, and I don't live for the sake of living.

When you observe the state of people and make a comparison, when you do a little investigation, you will find that people who have vision, who have Mingding(destination), who have dreams are willing to contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and are willing to be a blessing to many people. Such people live well. You don't need to reason, just look at it simply and you will know that this is the investigation and research that people must do. Actually, I am not looking down on farmers. I am saying that this kind of farmer consciousness, peasant mentality, many farmers do not have peasant mentality, but many corrupt officials have a strong peasant mentality.

So today, our brothers and sisters should observe and truly understand what is life all about? Understand what life and death are all about? Understand how people can live well, and start to restore the dreams and visions in you. From now on, live for your dreams and for your visions.

Such visions and dreams must come from Abraham. Start from the dreams pursued by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don't invent a dream yourself. I dream of becoming a billionaire. What's the use of you becoming a billionaire? My dream is to travel around the mountains and rivers. Don't you think you haven't figured out what living is all about? People who say these things are basically people who haven't figured it out.

People with Peasant Mentality are Unwilling to Fight and Serve God

Some time ago, I received a call from someone I used to serve. He had terminal cancer and was dying. We really hoped to be able to bring him out of it. The last time I saw him, he was still a healthy person. I told him to restore vision Mingding(destination), restore dreams and live out the meaning of life that people should live out, and offer yourself to God.

As a result, he thought that if I followed and believed in the Lord like this, I wouldn't really be able to live well. Should I travel around the mountains and play in the water? In his circle of friends, all I saw were photos of traveling around the mountains and playing in the water, and sometimes jumping very high and making a leap pose for a photo. When I received his call some time ago, his whole body had collapsed. Do you think the peasant mentality harmed him?

Our brothers and sisters must clearly understand what life is all about? I dare not say that I really understand it, but I absolutely accept and believe what the Bible tells me about what life is all about. Seeing these stories often makes me feel very sad.

Just recently, a friend of mine's wife had brain cancer. She had been prayed for and recovered, but she continued to live a small life, not wanting to fight, just wanting to walk with his wife in the garden. Later, the brain cancer relapsed and she returned to the hospital. I wondered what exactly made these people embark on this path. If you go into the hospital, you will see that those who are intubated and dying have all lived like this.

I once told myself: I am determined to be a person who serves God. This is my vision, this is my dream, this is my Mingding(destination). I was born for this and I live for this. I reject the small life in me, the intimate love and enjoyment of life. I reject all these, because these things are all peasant mentality.

Today I encourage everyone to go back and think about the topic I shared, think carefully and then ask yourself, why are you alive? If you observe carefully, you will understand, you will know, and then start to follow the same path as me, become a blessing to all nations and peoples on earth!