Bill was the oldest of four children who grew up in a well-to-do family in the suburbs. As the children grew up and began to marry, Bill and his Father started a tradition in the family. Shortly before each of the marriages of the three younger children, Bill and his Dad would get together and buy a car for the new couple as a wedding gift. Bill would secretly find out what kind of car they really wanted, he and his father would go and pick out just the right one, and Dad would buy it…
When the time finally came for Bill to be married, he received not a car from his Dad, but a Bible. Bill was outraged. Thinking that he had been snubbed, he tossed the Bible back at his father and stormed out of the room. He and his 
bride then moved away and Bill never saw his father again. Several years later, upon hearing that his father had died, Bill returned home to help settle the estate. As he was going through his father’s study, he came across the Bible that he had been given for his wedding gift, and brushing off the dust, he chanced to open it.
Right in the front, Bill found a Cashier’s Check for an amount more than enough to buy the car of his dreams, dated the date of his wedding…
Stunned, Bill sat down; he just couldn’t believe it. As he sat there, he wondered how he could have been so foolish to jump to conclusions, resulting not only in his missing out of the very thing he wanted, but in destroying his relationship with his father. Thinking of the time he had wasted, the relationship lost and the gift he now could not have, for the check was no longer valid, Bill began to weep.
I wonder how many people have missed out on a relationship with their Heavenly Father because the gift He sent them; the very gift they desire most, doesn’t look the way they expected it to look. The gift of the Father is a gift of forgiveness, peace, hope and joy, but it looks like the Man Jesus Christ, God’s own Son. What Jesus has accomplished for us can never be replaced and it is more precious than all of the gold in the world.
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This still shocks me, even though I’ve read it before.
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So true of all of us. Most of us don’t think about the sin of assumption and the damage caused by assuming we know everything. Thanks for the great reminder!
Thank you!
Reblogged this on Loose Him and Let Him Go and commented:
This is such a good illustration I just had to share it.
I give 2 thumbs up!
Thank you!
Reblogged this on Just Saying and commented:
Thought provoking…. very best of God’s gifts is so easy to miss in a moment of irrational disappointment.
Great word Don. May I reblog this?
Sure… and thank you!
The story is a telling reminder of how often our greatest gifts and treasures are veiled in God’s Word ~ Amen :Y
I would say so!
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This is a good word from a fellow life speaker. Check out his blog.
The gift of eternal life in Christ is far more precious than silver and gold; you are right. This is just the kind of foolishness and greed Christ died for on the cross, then God raised Christ from death and offers us his perfect righteousness though we are cruel to the Father – the giver of good gifts. We have a great and Almighty Savior. Your comment about Jesus not looking the way we think he should look made me think of the Jewish people, who now look for a Messiah and yet look not at the Messiah Jesus Christ.
Good point!