What Works Better, Being Macho or Prayer

That new Lab with my friends daughter

Yesterday I was coming home from skeet shooting with two good friends. As we were driving home on the 15 Fry one of the men got a call on his phone. The dog he has been waiting for in the dog pound was going to be given to someone else because he didn’t show up in time to pick it up. Well the dog pound told him not to call, that they would call him. Well they didn’t. He was expressing how that was just not right. Well we all got a little incensed because we wanted him and his family to get that Golden Lab. Now all of us have shotguns, and we all have pick ups, but this friend didn’t have his dog yet, and we were getting a little heated. So we decided to go directly to the dog pound the three of us. On our way my friend got another call, now they said the owner decided to call after 11 days and wanted his dog back, but the owner only gets 10 days, so they said. Well my friend hung up the phone and we began to get the macho juices flowing. One friend who is a foreigner to this country said, “Hey I’ve only been here for 8 years, but there’s one thing I’ve learned about this country, this is America, and you have the right to sue them. My friend who was getting the dog is a cop, so I pipe up and say hey did you bring your badge? Well put it on man! Wear it on your belt like Haratio Cain does on CSI Miami. When you walk in, inform her that you are a Police officer and this is breaking a code, and you will have to talk to her director. We actually thought about walking in with our shotguns, but we decided that that might be a little mellow dramatic.
So we get to the dog pound and the lady tells us that the owner called and if he gets here by 4:00 PM he gets the dog. If not, we get the dog. So we finally come to our senses and said hey you guys, we haven’t prayed yet. So we began to pray together in the dog pound. I think people thought we were nuts. But we were praying Lord please if you want an accident on the freeway, now might be a good time to make it happen etc. But the guy showed up at 3:30. We were disheartened. We let my friend go and talk to the owner and me and my foreign friend began to pray some more like this. Lord can you change this man’s heart to give this beautiful golden lab to my friend? But we continued on, “if not we know that this is your ultimate choice and will, and we are good with your will. We don’t know every thing about this dog and we know you do. Maybe if my friend gets the dog he will get Parvo and die tomorrow. We know you know all Father, so just do your will Amen.”
My friend talked to the owner for 45 minuets and the owner just couldn’t give that beautiful lab up. She is an awesome dog. Well trained, good tempered. So the owner said I just can’t let her go. So my friend said, “Well I understand that, she’s beautiful. I just wanted to let you know that we’ve been praying for you before we got here and we knew it would be in God’s hands. Then the owner said you prayed for me? Man, that’s the kind of owner I have been looking for. Some body that would really care for and love my dog. Are you a Christian, and my friend said yes, and the owner said so am I, and you know what? God just moved my heart and I’m going to give you the dog. What an incredible act of love on the owner’s part. He knew deep in his heart he couldn’t take care of the dog because he was always gone and the dog kept running away because of it. But God touched his heart and did his own personal miracle. It was all done with out an unkind word. It was all done in love, all the way around. It was an incredible witness to the staff in the dog pound. They said we love when things go down like this. We very rarely see it. This made my day.
So you see, God really doesn’t need all our macho tendencies. Rather then that, He uses the Spirit of God to change men’s hearts. So the bottom line is, you gotta ask yourself, does God answer prayer? Ya dog gone right he does!

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