The Pineapples That Weren't Mine #RTTBROS #Nightlight
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The episode discusses Otto Koning's journey of letting go of anger over stolen pineapples and finding peace through surrendering ownership to God.
The Pineapples That Weren't Mine #RTTBROS #Nightlight "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." - Luke 9:23 (KJV) I heard about an old missionary named Otto Koning who spent years in the jungles of New Guinea trying to reach a village for Christ. To break up the monotony of his diet, he planted a hundred pineapple shoots and waited three long years for them to ripen. The day they finally did, someone stole every last one, and it turned out to be the very man Otto had hired to help him plant them. When confronted, the man just shrugged and said, "My hands plant them, my mouth eats them." For seven years Otto fought for those pineapples. He threatened to close the mission clinic. He brought in a guard dog. Nothing worked, and worse, nothing about his anger looked like Jesus. In seven years of preaching, he never saw a single soul come to Christ. Then at a seminar back in the States, Otto realized something that changed everything. His anger was not really about the fruit. It was about ownership. He was gripping something with both fists and calling it his right. So he went back to that garden and gave it away. He told God…
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