Years ago, Dr. George Truett was preaching in a camp meeting in West Texas. At the morning service he preached on the text: "You are not your own. You have been bought with a price." He was met after the service by a cattleman who had not long been a Christian. The man said, "Let's go for a walk. I have something to show you." They went up the canyon more than a mile away. All along the pathway the cattleman did not say a word. His great chest rose and fell, as if some seething furnace were beneath it, as indeed there was. Dr. Truett waited for him to speak, and finally he did. He said, "I want you to pray a dedicatory prayer for me."

"What do you want me to dedicate?" asked Dr. Truett. Slowly the cattleman began to talk and tears began to stream down his cheeks and he said, "I did not know until this morning that all of these cattle that I have called my own are not mine at all, but every one of them belongs to Christ. I did not know that these thousands of acres of land out there are not mine. They belong to God. Please help me pray a prayer to dedicate all that I have to Him. It is his. I will be his manager."

When Truett had finished, the deeply moved cattleman also prayed, "And now dear Lord may I also give you my wayward son? Please save him." Dr. Truett said that later that night in the evening service that wayward son came to Christ as well.

That cattleman's vast estate did not obscure what was really important: his relationship with God and his relationship with his own son.