Abide in Him and you will be fruitful
Being prepared for extreme circumstances is pretty straightforward in the natural. There are countless emergency prep checklists online to refer to. Gather your peanut butter, flashlights, warm clothes, etc., etc. But how do we prepare on the inside? How do our spirits and souls get ready for any more states of emergency? If you've lived any length of time, as I have, you realize how hard it is to wrap your brain around how much the world has changed in the past few decades. It's hard to even remember how we lived our lives before the internet. Who would have ever dreamed that we would be "connecting" with strangers around the world and calling them friends? People whom we've never even met. It's all very strange. But pining for the past is not the answer. We get prepared on the inside by building up our faith in Christ. We do this by reading and studying His Word. But beyond that, we will need more than ever before to abide in Him. To abide means to