Let’s sidestep for a minute before we get into today’s newsletter.
Operation Fortress: There is a lot going around social media about how the government is telling the military bases to be ready for a 90 day shutdown and dozens of other countries are calling for people to stock up on food and supplies.
What the social media hype fails to show is this: the timeline for Operation Fortress is around 3 years! Yes, we are pushing our military to be ready, but it’s not an instant thing. Other governments are also just upping their overall readiness. Our own government has been running Readiness.gov which has been pushing food storage for almost a quarter of a century!
I am not saying don’t prepare but also don’t prepare on social media hype alone. And certainly not on social media timelines. Take this with what you will. Now onto our regular message…
I was sitting in church this last weekend and a thought came to me. Are we focused on physical preparedness only?
Let me explain. We recently moved and part of our move was setting up our HAM radio and larger antenna. I can hear farther and talk to more people than ever before. And when something goes sideways, I can now reach help from a greater distance. Great news!
Yet while we may spend large amounts of time in physical preparedness, are we letting our spiritual preparedness fall to the wayside? I would put forth that our scriptures are our spiritual ‘HAM radio’.
Just as a larger antenna allows me to connect to more people, more time spent in the scriptures allows me to reach our Heavenly Father with more clarity. And prayer is no different than jumping on a radio net each week to check in with our local group. We are checking in with the Lord!
Time at church, scriptures, prayer. These are all things we should be doing to tune Him in.
If you ask me, five minutes spent in the scriptures is worth way more than time spent in physical preparedness. While I might die from lack of food or supplies, that puts me at the judgement bar of God.
Would I rather stand for righteousness, passing away with a strength of conviction in knowing I did all I could to move the gospel forward, or would I prefer to stockpile food, turning my neighbor away to keep myself alive another day?
Don’t spend all your time preparing physically and ignoring the spiritual side of your preparedness. Find the right balance to save your family in an emergency, and your souls for all eternity.