Feeling the Shaking

When I was first led to establish this place, I thought the people would be right behind me to gather, but I was wrong.  Seems for the past several years in some assignments from YHWH, I think I'm ready, when I still have quite a bit more to learn, or it simply isn't time yet.  The first homestead was a great learning experience, and absolutely necessary.  Sometimes we get impatient, or at least I do, with the timing of the plan.  I realize impatience is not a gift of the Spirit, so as I have learned many necessary homesteading skills and much of this last decade simplifying, patience has entered the picture as well.  As I watch the end of days unfold, I find I'm not in the same rush I was ten years ago, and many of what used to be priorities are simply no longer even a part of the picture.

A relationship with YHWH has been my priority since 1994, and following Messiah has been my path since that same time, but the path has narrowed in twenty years.  In the beginning of my walk with Messiah, I had no idea I was heading back to live off the land.  It would be another five years before I heard that specific plan, and I still had no idea how the plan would unfold.  I do know this.  I couldn't have maintained everything I had in 1994 and still had room for His plan on this narrow path.  I'm not talking religious piety here at all, but rather the vast simplicity of His plan has simply encompassed and enveloped me.  I didn't do it, He did.  All I've done is seek, listen, follow, and obey for this to work.  When something doesn't work, I go back and see which one of those four steps I've omitted.

I'm still not perfect, but there is much more in place, than I even knew needed to be established!  I still don't have all the answers, but I've drawn even closer to the One who does.  What I've come to understand is, the closer I am to the fulfillment of the plan, the more unready I feel.   Since we are promised G-d's strength in our weakness, I am reassured.  I certainly have plenty of areas of weakness for Him to display His strength.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Messiah may rest upon me.  testimony of the Apostle Paul written to the assembly in Corinth.