A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed him a beautifully wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold.

Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?", and stormed out of the house leaving the Bible. Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation.

Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take of things. When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago.

With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse, Matthew 7:11, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall you Father which is in heaven give good to them that ask him?" As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the 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?

- Author Unknown

Ladies’ Work Group
The Ladies’ Work Group is scheduled to meet in the Ladies’ Work Room, behind the annex, tomorrow (Monday) evening at 7:00. All the ladies of the congregation are invited to attend and participate in the group’s fellowship and projects.

Baby Shower
There will be a Baby Shower for Katrina Stearsman, this afternoon at 3:00 in the annex. All of the ladies of the congregation are invited to attend.

Bible Study CD
This is a CD Alert!: If you got one of the 10 Electronic Bible Correspondence Course CD's here at the building last week and it doesn't work, please throw it away and get a new one today. The autorun feature is bad and doesn't run the CD. It has been replaced.
Thanks,
Gaylon

We all sin and even after conversion to Jesus, we never reach the point of being perfect law keepers. If we admit there is room for growth, we are coming to an understanding that God is the only one that can direct us. (Romans 3:23 "We have all sinned and come short of God's glory.")

Don’t Forget the Weekly Prayer Meeting in classroom #3, Sundays at 5:30 p.m.