A young man was getting ready to graduate from college.  For many months he had admired a sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.  However on graduation day, his father handed him a gift box with a leather bound Bible.  Angry, the son raised his voice to his father and said, With all your money, you just give me a Bible?  Then he stormed out of the room.

  

Many years passed and the young man received a telegram that his father had died.  He had to go home and take care of the family business.  Upon going through his father's things, he saw the Bible that his father had given him years before at his graduation.  His father had underlined the verse "Matthew 7:11."  As he read the passage, a key dropped from the back of the Bible.  It had a tag with a dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired.  On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words, "PAID IN FULL."  How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? 

  

If you have (or had) a parent that gave you the Word of God, be thankful for such a gift, and remember, no one can give like GOD GIVES!