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After fifteen years of burning welding rod and spinning a wrench on car haulers, “parking lots,” as we called them, my job was downsized and relocated. My wife Cyndi and I felt God’s hand in this as the radio program’s work was more than a full-time job, and we had prayed for God to help me go full-time, and I lacked the faith to just up and quit. I was offered the chance to relocate to the new facility, plus four additional locations, but we decided to place our needs in God’s hands at that point in our journey. I must say here, the Lord has met every need we ever had, sometimes before we ever knew we had a need or thought to ask Him.
A year and a half later, one afternoon I received a call asking if I wanted to take a position at a major car hauler terminal. Still on the inactive seniority list, the company was required to call me, but I declined. Three weeks later I received a registered letter informing me I had ten days to show up at the company’s small operations office set-up at the auto manufacturing factory yard to fill out some papers. I had worked with over thirty mechanics there, now only half were still active with the company at some location. So, as I waited in the office to sign the form, I didn’t think I would see any of my old work mates. Suddenly, there stood a fellow mechanic who also had refused the new location and received a letter. We exchanged greetings and talked a bit. Then, a supervisor we had worked with stepped in and soon he was asking a number of questions about the radio program, all the places I had traveled to and about the well-known outdoorsmen I was interviewing for God’s Great Outdoors. I was actually to leave for Alaska the next day to speak at several churches and fill-in at a radio station for a number of weeks. I shared about the past year’s trips and how I had interviewed Ron Lindner and Bill Dance plus some other outdoorsmen who are seen on television. God had really opened some doors. We talked about that and the guys I used to work with there. After doing the required paperwork, the other mechanic had to leave. He shook my hand and wished me good luck. I said, “Thanks.” Later, as I drove down the road, I thought about that. I don’t believe in luck and I could have said so and preached a sermon to him about it. Yet, I marveled at God and how of all the ex-employees he could have sent there at that time, he was the one. First, he was one of the fishermen in the shop and watched In-Fisherman and other fishing TV shows. He had heard all God was doing in my life. Second, I had talked to him time and again about the Gospel; he knew the truth. Last, once I had lost my temper with him and we had gotten into a shouting match. I apologized, but our relationship had suffered since. His hand offered to me was taken as a friendly gesture; that was great!
Nothing happens by accident and as I said, I marveled and still do that he was there at that time. God is in control. If someone loves you enough to share God’s truth about His Son Jesus and His death on the cross, it is no accident. Why not choose to accept that love from your friend and the living Savior this very day?
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” (Revelation 3:20)
“‘Come now; let us reason together,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.’”
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