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The Dumpster Rule

1/5/2014

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PictureWoman Found $150,000 rug in Dumpster
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Last year a woman discovered a beautiful rug in a dumpster. She dug it out because it was beautiful to her. On a whim she took it to the TV program, Antique Road Show. The host of the show pointed out the rug was an Admalic creation about 200 years old. This woman from San Diego, California now has a rescued dumpster rug valued at $150,000.

Here’s a question: Does the person who put the rug in the dumpster have a claim to the thrown away rug? No. The Dumpster Rule states once something is set outside the home, business etc. as trash it is fair game for whomever. This includes any form of law enforcement, a passerby or a professional dumpster diver.

The wording is similar to this: Once it hits the dumpster it is no longer under your control.

I have invested heavily in rescuing people from the dumpsters of life. These are men and some women who have been deemed unworthy, unredeemable, and other terms signifying trash.

I could make a list several pages long of people I and my associates have picked from life dumpsters who turned out to be of great value to Christ and His work. Though often criticized, we continue helping people get out of the dumpster and get on with life.

People do not belong to other people to throw away and if they are thrown away for whatever reason, they still are God’s creation. Some of the worst attacks and criticism have proven groundless as the rescued have proven of great worth in the kingdom of Christ.

Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him (Jacob) in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

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4 Comments
Oral Deckard link
1/5/2014 10:17:39 am

You make a very important point about people not being anyone's property to discard. Just as things get thrown out as trash are often found by others to still have a lot of use left in them, some of the worst down and outers have been picked up, dusted off, and continued to serve, or began to serve.

As you have so often pointed out, God does not call the qualified, but qualifies those who answer his call. There is also a song about God using cracked pots.

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David link
1/5/2014 10:31:40 am

Thank you Dr. Lilly for sharing this truth today. This really struck a chord wit this "Dumpster Rug". Only eternity will tell the true impact your ministry has had on we dumpster rugs. May God bless you richly so that you can continue to search the dumpsters for rugs that need to be rescued.

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Dale Byers
1/5/2014 09:06:04 pm

Hi Larry, Thanks for another great article. How are things going for you and Joyce. Your writings are always pointed and effective. Keep writing for the Lord.

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J. Austin Bennett
1/6/2014 02:48:06 pm

If the Lord had a dumpster, he'd need a big one. We would all be in it. Good article and a look at the human tendency to judge others based on external observations. God looked deeper for Lot and, thankfully, for Austin too.

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