So, you have made your basement
bomb-proof, installed solar panels, dug a well, and canned enough food to last
ten years. You’ve engineered, on your own, a heating system that is not reliant
on electricity, and you’ve rigged a longer-lasting septic system. You’ve
stocked up on guns and ammo, bought night vision goggles, mapped all your
exits, created an EMP-proof shelter for your electronics, stocked up on
medicine and herbs, planted a garden, invested in silver, got a gas mask, and
bought enough nutella and coffee for trading value.
But…are you ready?
Most prepers would reply, “More
ready than that.” It may be so. That is, to say, in material needs. However,
the question is: what are you preparing for? A short burst of chaos? A season
of trials? A period of transition? Perhaps you’ve been preparing with the
thought, just in case, while continuing to make plans for your future. Or,
maybe there’s the thought in your mind that you are so well prepared that even
if things go drastically bad, you’ll hardly even notice. There will be no
ripples in your pond.
However, have you prepared your mind
or more importantly your spirit? A season of change is upon us, and most people
can feel the vibe in the air, like the static before a big storm. We all know
it’s coming. It will rip through our comfortable lives and change the world we
have become accustomed to; a world that has been shifting and moving through
the ages but always seems to get itself upright in the end.
So, you’re ready, right?
There will inevitably come an age in
human history where the world will not set itself upright again; everything
will not “get better” but progressively slide downhill– all the way downhill.
Are you prepared to live in a world like that? Will your water, food, and fire
be enough reason for you to wake up every morning and keep going, when the
chance of college, traveling, owning a home, having children or watching them
grow, earning good money– everything you’ve been hoping for– have been swiped
away for good?
For they that are after the flesh do
mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of
the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. (Rom. 8:5-6)
Think about what category you would
place yourself in; is it the carnal or the spiritual?
After the food dwindles and nothing
gets better, the streets are unsafe, there’s no longer a movie theater or a
bar, there is no more facebook or youtube, and after people you know have died
and winters seem colder than you remember, will you still feel prepared to live
this way for the rest of your life?
If you scoffed and said you have
enough to even survive a zombie apocalypse, I have four words for you…
You are not ready.
And there shall be signs in the sun,
and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with
perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear,
and looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the power of
heaven shall be shaken. (Luke 21:25-26)
What you are preparing for,
physically, is not enough to carry you through, mentally and spiritually. Jesus
said, men will quite literally die from fear of what is happening on the earth.
As I look around, I see so much violence– ISIS, the threat of a world war,
pandemics, government control, economic instability, and I can’t help but think
we are already approaching the horizon where many people are scared of the
future. So what do you have to hold onto that will supersede this material and
flammable world? What will remain unchanged– strengthened even– when everything
else has irreversibly been changed?
In such times of uncertainty, your
spiritual state of being and what you have placed your faith in will ultimately
determine how you will fare and whether you will survive. Jesus said:
These things I have spoken unto you,
that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be
of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)
As I walk forward toward the
horizon, I walk with my God– a God who has overcome the world so it cannot
overcome me. A God who will part the sea for me to walk through. A God who will
guide me through to green pastures. A God who gives me eternal life, even after
this world has passed. He is a loving God, who lets me call Him Father.
I am prepared.
From
the Survival Blog
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