Today
is my oldest brother Dr. David Wolf’s birthday.
Thinking about his birthday has caused me to remember a gift that he
gave me many years ago. We all like to
receive gifts but this gift was different. It was a beautiful and expensive
gift but that did not matter to me because I did not want to receive it. It is what I call the unwanted gift. I cannot remember when he gave it to me but I
will never forget the fact that he brought it with him when he came home from
the US Navy. The unwanted gift was a
Bible.
The
reason that I did not want it was because I was not a Christian at that time
and had no intension of trading it.
David has given me many fine gifts over the years but this was the
greatest gift that he has ever given to me.
That is saying lot because he
once gave me a car! It was great gift because it brought me face to face
with my lost condition. It made me think
about the fact that I was very sinful and needed to confess my sins and give my
heart to God.
There
was an even greater gift that was given to sinful men and women—that gift was
God’s giving of his only son Jesus Christ to come to this sinful world to live,
suffer, and give His life on a cruel cross at Calvary. Many sinful men and women did not receive
that wonderful gift, but thanks be to God, He gave his only begotten Son
anyway. My brother gave a gift to me
because he loved me. God gave His only
son for sinful men and women because he loved us all with a wonderful
unfathomable love.
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