“Andrew Higgins is the man who won the war for us.”
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1964 interview
He hated school, drank too much and fought with too many people. However, if it weren’t for that Irishman, the Pacific Islands would not have been taken back and the Normandy invasion would have been impossible. At the New Orleans plant where his company built the boats that brought troops ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944, Higgins hung a sign that said, “Anybody caught stealing tools out of this yard won’t get fired – he’ll go to the hospital.” He was greatly used for the war effort because he developed the Higgins Boat.
He reminds me of the Apostle Paul talking of himself. He states that he wasn’t much to look at. He had a thorn in the flesh that God wouldn’t remove. He had a continual war with himself. Churches turned against him. Yet he was responsible for twelve epistles because he was a chosen vessel in God’s economy. How many are blessed today because of the words he penned?
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
Even you could be a Higgins or a Paul.
Give it some thought.
Gary