There are a lot of people who are God’s children; there aren’t so many who serve His Kingdom. That’s the issue at stake here. We strive to be useful to His Kingdom; we aren’t satisfied merely to be born heirs. We want to promote His reputation and be like Him.
Preparing and maturing toward actual Kingdom service is Heavenly Prepping.
And the thing that should haunt our thinking about this whole image is that it’s covenantal, feudal, tribal and mystical (AKA, biblical/Hebraic). Those are your instinctive anchors if you are heart-led. Sure, the world has little tolerance for that, but it’s how we operate in our own frame of reference. It’s hard work to keep your feet on the Rock and your hands busy in the muck of this world, but that’s what it requires.
As I’ve said in the past, all the good or convenient labels have been taken. Most of them have been hijacked by people who make them mean something entirely different. I wish it was as simple as saying we need churches by the above definition, but no one’s going to understand it that way except just a few of us. So after some prayer I cooked up the label “Radix Fidem” (Latin: root of faith) because it wasn’t already being used.
I’m proposing we use this label to refer to church bodies that reflect the biblical Hebraic model. We need clans of Heaven on this earth (there’s another label we could use). And while I can’t possibly say when or where or how, I know that God alone can do this. It has to be a miracle on God’s initiative, just like spiritual birth.
So we prepare our hearts to become human anchor points for the birth of covenant fellowships. And we trust the Lord that these fellowships will grow into clans of Heaven, a parallel society that arises from a distinct holiness, a separation from any worldly identity. Conforming to that biblical Hebraic image is holiness.
This is the root of a blessed shalom life, tribulation or not. It’s how we face everything. With persecution, we learn once again not to let our guard down, not to weaken the boundaries of holiness. Invest in Biblical Law.
Stock up now on holiness before the shortage hits; that’s real Heavenly Prepping.
