Special Gifts

Since the beginning of this year 2020, I have been considering what best gifts I could give to my children. To my best knowledge, I have trained them to read the Bible every day. In fact, my son and daughter, have completed reading through the Bible for the first time in their life in 2019. Now, my youngest daughter who is six years of age is reading with my wife. They have been reading the word of God from the old and torn Bible that I and my wife have been using for years. As I consider over and over again, I decided to gift them the best gift, the Holy Bible and the best Bible, the imported leatherbound Holy Bible, Recovery Version.

Though the Bibles are quite expensive, and perhaps, the most expensive gifts I would have ever given to my children so far. But it's worth it. This is a life-time investment on all my children. Gifting them with the Bible and helping them read, understand, and live according to the word of God is the best inheritance I can possibly pass on to my next generation. With this inward decision, the Lord also provided enough offering for me to be able to purchase these special and worthy gifts for my children. I have done this in fellowship with my beloved wife as well.

In the gift, I have printed the following Bible verses as a reminder of the importance of the word of God.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

Today, being the physical birthdate of my eldest daughter, I reckon it best to gift them the gifts today, to all my children. So that all may have the same feeling of being gifted, not just the one whose birthday occurs.

Another reminder from the 16th President of the United States of America on the Bible is"

“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

May the Lord grace all my children to be God-men children on whom dwells the word of God richly, and may they grow, build-up, be perfected by the Lord through His word and become a man of God completed, fully equipped for every good work.