Sorry, babe. That's closer to your trip than mine. We already got the discomfort -- the lost health, the lost retirement savings, the lost income, the lost middle-class. We are not afraid for God sustains us, not comfortable living. We did prepare. All our eggs either broke or rotted. God sustains us. He gave us the tough trip, so we already know we are but sojourners with him.
You on the other hand, are selfish enough to think the first century wasn't about you, so you should worry about your future. The first century IS the New Testament.
Keep thinking some future thing will get you. We've had that future thing happen many times in our lives. Between the two of us -- hubby and me -- we've been raped, raped, raped, abused, lost our parents one way or another (I'm still losing Dad to dementia), broken back, lost our home, rebuilt, paid way more than we owed, lost a job, lost another job, lost jobs together, had a spine damaged causing disabling pain, a degenerating spine, and digestive issues (that are still there), went through chemo, and although the disease was cured, the chemo caused disabling conditions like Tourette's, palsy like tremors, bad balance, unchecked blood pressure problems, and neuropathy, which brought us to three weeks before losing the house and living ten months on $839 a month, but now with the knowledge we will never again -- unless God gives us a miracle -- buy another car, another washing machine, or fix our house, which is, quite literally, crumbling around us. We've already had what you fear the future will be, yet God sustains us.
We've had Psalm 37. We have Psalm 37. You wait for some future event while ignoring the past.
We are in the future -- now and with God in heaven. You keep thinking it's only about you. It's never about us. It's about God getting what he deserves -- glory. That's what you ignore when you refuse to see what happened in that first century. They suffered. We never have.
