If you have read my first book, "What Happens When We Only
Believe?" you will have noticed that I only wrote a fragment of my
personal testimony. While preparing for my second book, the Lord
impressed upon me to discuss my life from the very beginning. Even
though it may seem unusual, I have found that the Lord has a plan
for everything in our lives, if we but follow Him. Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 7:7-8. Today our nation is once more facing a very real
recession. It is like no other since the Great Depression of the
1930's. I was born in 1931 in Springfield, Ohio. The nation was in
the midst of the Great Depression. People everywhere were looking
for work. There was no social security in those days. President
Theodore Roosevelt conceived a program that put men to work, in
what he called the W.P.A. or Works Progress Administration. Men
cleaned streets, repaired buildings, or whatever work the
government offered them. The men did anything in order to feed
their families. Bread lines were long in those days, and folks had
to get there early and stand in long lines to receive their portion
of bread. Sometimes the bread supply was exhausted before everyone
received their bread. It was a hard time for many families. Wealthy
citizens suddenly lost all their money. Some jumped off of tall
buildings and died. They had lost everything, and they felt all
hope was gone. My father told us a story of his experiences during
that period. I was their firstborn child. Dad worked in a large
factory at this time, and mother stayed at home to care for me. My
father's job wasn't what he liked to do. He was a mechanic and a
carpenter at heart. I called him a "jack of all trades." Dad had a
coworker in the factory that was not as versatile as he was. Dad
knew that if he left the factory, this man would still have a job.
He also had a family and was about ready to be bumped. It was then
that dad decided to start his own repair shop in his garage. He
loved cars and motorcycles, and he was good at whatever he did. His
statement to me was that he had to earn money "for his baby's
milk." Dad was also a salesman. He was a tall charismatic,
good-looking man. People were naturally drawn to my father. At the
same time that dad quit his factory job; he began soliciting for a
major life insurance company. He said that no one could afford to
buy life insurance at that time, but dad's theology was to "make
friends now, the rest will come later." The Bible calls it
"planting seeds." Sometimes we have to wait for the harvest, Amen
Well, dad's harvest did come. After things in the nation got
better, dad's friends bought insurance from him. He did so well
that he eventually became a district sales manager for the company.
He retired from the insurance business well into his late 60s or
early 70s. The Bible tells us that fortunes made in a hurry usually
don't last. The Bible also states that fortunes made at someone
else's expense usually call for a payback sometime later in life.
From time to time, we hear of many people who have won a lot of
money all at once, and eventually end up broke. You may say that
they didn't have enough wisdom as to how to manage it. That is
probably true, but the Word of God tells us this will probably
happen. The Bible tells us we are to earn our bread by the sweat of
our brow. Jesus was a good example of this; he was a carpenter. He
could have called down gold from heaven if He so desired, but He
chose to give us an example of hard work. We Americans think that
life isn't fair or easy. The poorest person on the street has it
tough, but sometime in their life they might have had it better.
When we compare life in America to third world countries, we have a
lot. We need to be more grateful.
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