The Season Of Preparation

The recent Palisades and Altadena fires have a story to tell. You, and get this and take heed that God always gives us advance notice, cannot prepare for a disaster event, a personal trauma, emergency, or any other unforeseen events, during the event. The time of preparation is passed. Now it is response time, and in this time you depend on things to be in place that should have been discussed in the planning and preparation phase. Now obviously there have been many who don’t understand what it is to attend those meetings as when things are going well, some say or think, that there is no reason to get too worked up about this planning or preparation thing. Ha, yes and what has happened has happened and is the evidence that something is amiss.

Want a biblical example? Look, had Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, been tossed into the fiery furnace unprepared to meet the potential outcome, they would have perished. Oh, but you might say, yes Podcast Preacher but they would have been with God in Heaven. And I say, in advance of their prescribed time to be there, yes they would have. And but what would the cost have been insofar as their ministry being unfulfilled? The cities people would not have gotten saved, the decree that there is only One God to be worshipped would not have gone out. Their promotions in order that they could continue the work of God, would not have happened, and instead, a small crew in total bewilderment of such an event would have been pulled together to clean out the furnace: let’s get heated up on the thing.