Eight Cow Wife

Have you ever seen the movie, "Johnny Lingo?" One of our volunteers used it with his sermon this past week and it was an incredible. The sermon was basically about our identity and self worth. He brought out in the movie how this young girl's life had been shaped by the things her parents said to her, the things the village said and she believed them all to be true. She was told she was worth nothing, she was ugly and so on.

Johnny Lingo had grown up with this girl and he had loved her all his life. He knew she was beautiful and he wanted to marry her when they were grown. When a man wanted to marry a woman in the village, he would go to the father and offer cows for the hand of the daughter. Most of the women in the village had been bought for at least two to three cows. No one thought this girl was worth even one cow, but her father asked for three cows and the whole village laughed. But Johnny Lingo said he would pay eight cows for her, that three cows were too small of an amount. Everyone was shocked, but Johnny wanted her to be able to talk with the women of the village and proclaim she was an eight cow wife!

She ended up getting her identity and self esteem back and whole village was shocked at how beautiful she was, her father even told Johnny Lingo he had been cheated, that she was worth ten cows.

The sermon ended on the note that some of us have been lied to all our life. The Lord places so much value on our lives that He gave everything. When the invitation was given, Chuck said, "is there anyone here who would like to give their life to Christ? and if there is stand up boldly and say here I am Lord!" Of course he meant in your mind when you stand, you were saying Here i am Lord, but this kid, his name is Pedro jumped to his feet and said, "HERE I AM LORD!" I thought wow, was he ever bold, he then went up to the front of the room and prayed with Calvin the speaker and we all hugged him and welcomed our little brother in the family.

Until Next Time....Hugs to you all..........