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Men of Integrity, Sep/Oct 2001
Finding Hog Heaven
Theme for the Week: Investing Internationally—1 Thessalonians 1-3
Thursday, October 25
Key Bible Verse: We were encouraged. … For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord (1 Thessalonians 3:7-8).
Bonus Reading: 1 Thess. 3:6-10
Discharged from the Army in 1956, I became a Christian, was married, bought part of the family farm, and began pursuing my dream of building Indiana's greatest hog operation. Since I had an accounting degree, I took a job with a local industry and was soon made assistant controller. Meanwhile the hog project was thriving.
But the Lord's conviction was on me to submit my vocation to Him. Like Gideon, I told God, "You'll need to give me a sign. I have these 80 sows. If none of them has babies, I'll believe You have other work for me." In a few weeks the veterinarian confirmed the obvious: my boars were all sterile.
About then, an item in the World Gospel Mission magazine announced its need of an accountant. I applied—and worked there for 25 years. A couple of years before retiring as treasurer, a Honduras missionary asked if I'd help them start a hog operation.
My first reaction? "Lord, You must be kidding!" But we moved to Honduras in 1999. And today we have the operation of my dreams here with four beautiful buildings and a great vocational training program for 25 young men.
—Bob Hudson in Call to Prayer
My Response:
An incident that helped me to understand that my dreams and God's will aren't at loggerheads was . …
Thought to Apply:
What we give up for Christ we gain. What we keep back for ourselves is our real loss.
—J. Hudson Taylor (missionary to China, 19th century)
Adapted from: Call to Prayer (5-6/00) with permission.
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Men of Integrity magazine.
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