Trends

I've seen a number of comments and posts as "homesteading" is becoming the latest trend, and with that many are emphasizing the "preparation" for the coming apocalypse or Armageddon or something . . .  Well, I'm not seeing it that way at all.  I had no idea, nearly a decade ago, that I was on the "cutting edge" of some new trend.  I was just listening to the voice of my Shepherd.   I realize "we" are all being put in the same category by many, but I don't consider myself a "prepper" and I didn't know what I was doing was called "homesteading" until last year.  I've really never needed a title to do what I'm supposed to do, just direction from my Creator.

I'd already been shown that my outreach was primarily going to be from home, through the internet and books.  I knew the "hands on" teachings I would do would be encouraging the use of our G-d given gifts" and walk in His Instruction for our health.  The chemicals in the water treatment were affecting my health, and the changes being made to even the fresh foods, were becoming troublesome.  At the time I moved, I had no idea how troublesome!

I had heard my call when I first received His Great Spirit indwelling, and the "title" was about my responsibility and accountability to the One I serve, not a religious position!  Sorting through the nationalism, tradition, expectations, and judgment has taken awhile, and although I haven't arrived, I'm not where I was.

It's taken awhile for me to fully comprehend just how much of Messiah's ministry was meeting people through their physical needs before they received great spiritual teachings.  As I watch the "secrecy" surrounding so many of these homestead endeavors, I remember thinking that same thing.  I'm still not crazy about being the subject of Google searches, but I am running a home business and my books all contain my website and my phone number, so I'm not exactly in hiding.  YHWH reminded me, when I first began to shake off that "hidden" mentality, that the Pharaoh of Egypt knew where Goshen was.

Messiah said two things very specifically after his resurrection.  He told Peter to feed His lambs and sheep.  And he told them all to be witnesses unto Him.  In the perspective He's led me to understand, it's brought me full circle back to "not putting my light under a bushel."  I'm more concerned with being found by those I've been instructed to feed, and I'm more concerned with being "ready" than prepping.