2023 August: Without Consultation, Plans are Frustrated
2023 August: Without Consultation, Plans are Frustrated
But with many counselors they succeed. Proverbs 15:22
I’m looking for some feedback please, some input, because who here enjoys frustrated plans?!
Certainly my plans have been frustrated to some extent this summer; on the other hand it has been a summer of unbelievable abundance and blessing. I have no complaints. I plan to share more with you on where we plan to go, where we believe we are being called; the view from say 30,000 feet, so that when I’m writing about what we are doing with respect to this or that detail you will know how it fits in the larger scheme of things. And I welcome and desire your feedback on those plans and actions. I really do enjoy hearing from you. And I’m listening.
But, there are bigger things at play here than Primal Woods, Homestead Rebel Farm, and anything and everything else that we might be up to. And I ask for your input on what might be done to advance those “bigger things.”
The bigger thing that dominates my thoughts, is the war going on between good and evil. As Christians we know, with certainty, that there is an end of the age. We cannot know the timing; it could be tomorrow, it could be 40 generations hence. The truth is no one knows but the Father.
Matthew 24:36-39
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
I find it interesting that in most churches plenty of time is spent in the gospels, less Matthew 24 perhaps, but little time is spent in Daniel, or Ezekiel, or Revelation. Am I wrong? If not, why do you suppose that is? I suspect it is because it is because there are rough times ahead, and we don’t much like hearing about rough times. We really, in our heart of hearts, do not want our faith to be tested. But that’s beside the point I suppose.
The question is, what are we supposed to be doing between now and the end of the age?
The Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
I’ve written a number of posts regarding what I see going on in the world; if you scroll through the list most of them will be self-evident. To the sound of crickets for the most part. It seems to me, that does not mean it is true, that most people just do not want to know. To know might be hard, or, if I admit to knowing I might be obligated to do something in response, and worse yet, I might have to admit that I was wrong all along. Regardless, I feel called write, even if one soul might come to the truth as a result; just one.
Which brings me back to the need for counsel. The Great Commission, in the context of Primal Woods and Homestead Rebel Farm, what possibilities can you imagine for better fulfillment of the Commission?