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This is how you create unbelievers by the way.

You give God a test, ie, feeding you when times are sparse. Plenty of faithful Christians have starved during such times. When God fails the ‘test’, by witholding his ‘providence’, it is easy to conclude that you’re either not good enough, or there simply is no God. That’s even easier when God is letting your children starve before your eyes.

Holodomer.

I read your article like this:

‘I can’t afford to really prep with 10 years of freeze dried fruit and MRE’s and I don’t want to have to store all that anyways. So I’m going to justify not bothering with that at all with scripture’.

What would have happened on the Gulf coast after Katrina had the us military not intervened with MRE’s? What would those 15 or 20 miles inland looked like had that happened in the midst of political and/or social unrest. I’m not talking about people who would have lost any stored food to flooding. I’m talking people who lived north of the surge.

We have about 4-6w in the pantry + a 12m garden. If some sort of situation gets so out of hand that we are no longer able to garden in rural MS, we have other problems to consider...

But I have plenty of kin who have less than 10 days in the pantry. These are the ‘I’ll be raptured, I won’t have to worry about that!’ kin. These kin, in fact, were recipients of MRE’s after Katrina. But fail to see the irony there...Maybe the US military assisted the rapture...with the help of their fellow taxpaying citizens no less.

And these are the kin who now live in my grandmother’s house. She was also a Southern Baptist deacon’s wife. And had pecan trees, hickory nut trees, blueberry bushes, blackberry brambles, a 25-30ft pear tree that made the best tasting pears you ever ate, and a big garden nearly 12m out of the year.

Said kin meticulously either cut or pulled up every single food bearing plant my grandmother had lovingly tended and harvested from for decades. When I asked them why they’d done that, (I would give anything for a rooted cutting off of that pear tree) they replied that God had spoken to them about it and they’d decided to trust ‘providence’. And besides, we’ll be raptured! Mind you, this is my grandmother’s great neice’s family. Mind you, I think inheriting a house with 6 acres, big garden plot lovingly nourished with sort of tending by my grandparents and a yardful of edibles counts as pretty good ‘providence’ in my book.

And just 2 years later they were getting MRE’s after Katrina because (surprise surprise!) they were hungry.

Last I heard, they filled in the water well and dismantled the pump and rely only on municipal water now. Because if things get so bad the municipal water system becomes useless they’ll have already been raptured.

If you aren’t some degree of self sufficient, when things get bad, your neighbors pantry will begin to look like ‘God’s providence’ when they can no longer bear the faces of your starving children and send over food. Your neighbor’s view of ‘God’s providence’ will likely be a little different...

And with your outspoken articles against homosexuality, I wouldn’t count on any MRE’s if there’s another ‘cane down there. I’d be willing to bet that your address would get lost in the system.