Message #53365

[tennis shoe]

I think the key to understanding whether to prep or not is found in His will for my life personally. He knows my future role in the grand scheme of things.

Years ago, I had enough savings to stock up on supplies and did so. In my case, the money got tighter and tighter as the supplies were used up. Now, my pantry is what it is. Some of the leftover emergency supplies are quite old now. Financially, I’m running on empty.

I’ve also seen preppers lose everything they had due to a completely unforeseen event.

And yet, somehow, my family has been able to eat, stay warm, stay relatively healthy even though the medical system is crumbling.

My challenge is to know when to turn a problem over to Him, taking my hands off of the problem, and knowing what He would have me do.

I also recognize that it’s important to allow Him to run His body. The individual plan he would have for me is not necessarily the individual plan He would have for others that are His. But the trust is that He is working all things in an interconnected way that I’m not necessarily privy to in order to accomplish His purposes.

This is easier said than done. My fallen human nature struggles with doubt as the worry comes in. It’s counterintuitive to throw away the worldly safety net. Yet God does things to prove to me that He is in control of circumstances that I cannot take credit for. Like the Gideon’s army scenario. Like His people doing the 40-year circles in the desert lamenting that they were going to die. Thankfully, I'm not the only one that has done this with Him.