A married lady was expecting a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had admired a beautiful diamond ring in a showroom, and knowing her husband could afford it, she told him that was all she wanted. As her birthday approached, this lady awaited signs that her husband had purchased the diamond ring. Finally, on the morning of her birthday, her husband called her into his study. Her husband told her how proud he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He handed her a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, the wife opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the wifes name embossed in gold. Angrily, she raised her voice to her husband and said with all your money you give me a bible? And stormed out of the house leaving her husband. Many years passed and the lady was successful in business. She managed to settle for a more beautiful house and a wonderful family, but realised her ex-husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to visit him. Perhaps, she had not seen him for many years. But before she could make arrangements, she received a telegram telling her that her ex-husband had passed away, and willed all his possessions to her. She needed to come back immediately and take care of things. When she arrived back at her ex-husbands house, sudden sadness and regret filled her heart. She began to search through her ex-husbands important papers and saw the still new bible, just as she had left it years before. With tears, she opened the bible and began to turn the pages. Her ex-husband had carefully underlined a verse, Matthew 7:11, And if ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? As she read those words, a tiny package dropped from the back of the bible. It had a diamond ring, with her name engraved on it- the same diamond ring which she saw at the showroom. On the tag was the date of her birth, with the words, LUV U ALWAYS. We must learn to appreciate peoples efforts so far as its a good deed towards us,it might not be what you expected,big or small but be thankful cos the person tot about you. How many times do we miss Gods blessings, because they are not packaged as we expected? let us learn to be patient....
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 08:55:51 +0000
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