"Going Forth" or "Run and Hide"

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The question was asked whether we should prepare for survival or trust
God.

First, sometimes I wonder if we won't have a stock market crash before
Y2K arrives.

Anyway, we live on 10 acres 15 minutes from my town and 45 minutes from a
big city.  We live here because we were raised in the country.  My
husband and I lived in town 12 years of our married life.  We got tired
of it.  We're both country people at heart.  

The bottom line for me is that reaching souls has got to come first. 
Moving out to the mountains is not in my plans unless God calls us there.
(  Sometimes I think I hear the call and it's only my wishful thinking!)

  What if we all move to the mountains and waste all the time we had to
reach souls and no calamity happens?  It would be a trajedy. 

But at the same time, I don't think a little survival knowledge would
hurt.

I like survivalist skills.  I can and freeze some of our garden food.  My
husband hunts and we butcher and package our own venison and fish etc.  I
like food preservation.  It is good to know things like yeast is a
natural substance that can be "caught" ( like in sourdough bread) and
doesn't only come in little packages from the store.  My husband's
parents had a farm where he says " If we didn't raise it, shoot it, or
grow it, we didn't eat it."  They made all their own butter, soap etc. 
My family, although we raised our own garden and ate mostly wild game,
was not quite that primative as we went to the store more than once a
month.  Also, all that work is very time consuming.

  I'm not sure all the survivalist skills we could have will save us from
a real calamity.  It's good to know some of these things.  It's good to
plan ahead, but all in all, we will end up trusting God for much anyway.

Lynne Yohnk

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