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\"12-30-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal and chicken!\u00a0 I was just reading a story about some chickens.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 We have a little time before we have to leave and we would love to hear the story.<\/p>\n

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Anne Paden shares this short devotion<\/p>\n

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Jack London’s wonderful classic, White Fang, tells the story of an animal, half dog, half wolf, as he survives his life in the wild and then learns to live among men.\u00a0 There is one story in particular that has left a lasting impression on my heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

White Fang was very fond of chickens and on one occasion raided a chicken-roost and killed fifty hens.\u00a0 His master, Weeden Scott, whom White Fang saw as man-God and “loved with single heart, ” scolded him and then took him into the chicken yard.\u00a0 When White Fang saw his favorite food walking around right in front of him he obeyed his natural impulse and lunged for a chicken.\u00a0 He was immediately checked by his master’s voice.\u00a0 They stayed in the chicken yard for quite a while and every time White Fang made a move toward a chicken his master’s voice would stop him.\u00a0 In this way he learned what his master wanted–he had learned to ignore chickens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weeden Schott’s father argued that you “couldn’t cure a chicken killer,” but Weeden challenged him and they agreed to lock White Fang in with the chickens all afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Locked in the yard and there deserted by the master, White Fang lay down and went to sleep.\u00a0 Once he got up and walked over to the trough for a drink of water.\u00a0 The chickens he calmly ignored.\u00a0 So far as he was concerned they did not exist.\u00a0 At four o’clock he executed a running jump, gained the roof of the chicken house and leaped to the ground outside, whence he sauntered gravely to the house.\u00a0 He had learned the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Out of love and a desire to obey his master’s will, White Fang overcame his natural, inborn desires.\u00a0 He may not have understood the reason but he chose to bend his will to his master’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The simplicity and purity of White Fang’s love and devotion to his master help me realize that my life will always be full of “chickens.”\u00a0 What I have to settle is , whom will I serve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Psalm 81:12<\/p>\n

So I gave them up into their own hearts’ lust:\u00a0 and they walked in their own counsels.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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