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How Faith And Off The Grid Living Combine
What does it mean for us as Christians to prepare for possible hard times ahead? How do we reconcile the commandment to seek God’s kingdom first rather than worrying about our physical needs with the responsibility we feel to provide sustainably for ourselves and our loved ones? Can our faith motivate and direct our efforts to live an alternative to the consumer culture?
People have been asking these questions for a long time. Thoughtful and devoted people disagree about them. The partial answers here come from my own reading, reflecting, praying, and thinking. I am sure enough of them to shape my life around them. I know that does not give me the right to tell you to shape your life around them. If any of you have time and inclination to comment with some of the answers that shape your lives, I’d be glad to read about that.
I believe that faithfulness to God requires us not to put our trust in ourselves and not to make our personal safety our first priority. This can be difficult. The consumer culture teaches us that we exist to gratify our wants. The prepper culture sometimes gets corrupted by fear and teaches us to obsess over what we might lose in hard times, to stockpile emergency supplies and fortify our homes, and to believe that our precautions will keep us and our loved ones safe.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/07/05/how-faith-and-off-the-grid-living-combine/
