Justdroppedin
03-30-2018, 03:47 AM
A young man comes to his father a few months before his 16th birthday and asks, if for a present, his father would buy him a vehicle.
His father looks at him and replies: “Your grades are crap, you look like a hippy, and you don’t come to church with your mother and I anymore. Why would I buy you a car?”
The boy thinks long and hard and proposes a deal: “If I were to fix those things, would you be willing to buy me a car for my birthday?”
His father smiles and says, “If you get your grades up, cut your hair, and start coming to church, I will buy you a car.”
So over the next few weeks, the young man bust his butt. He gets his grades in order, even making the deans list. He starts going to church on Sundays, studies his Bible every night, and even finds time to join a youth group during the week.
With his birthday just around the corner, he finds his father and asks if he has done well enough to justify a vehicle.
His dad smiles and says, “I am very proud of all that you’ve done son, but I also asked you to cut that hair. So, no.
The boy, dejected but not defeated, looks at him and says, “Ahhhh, but father, in my time studying the Bible I noticed a fair few things. Most notably, many prominent men that you look up to have long hair. Moses was said to have long hair, many of the disciples had long hair, and even Jesus had long hair. So I don’t think it’s too far out of the question for me to keep my hair this way.
His dad looks at him and says, “That may be true, but if you would have studied a little harder, you’d have noticed all those guys walked everywhere.”
His father looks at him and replies: “Your grades are crap, you look like a hippy, and you don’t come to church with your mother and I anymore. Why would I buy you a car?”
The boy thinks long and hard and proposes a deal: “If I were to fix those things, would you be willing to buy me a car for my birthday?”
His father smiles and says, “If you get your grades up, cut your hair, and start coming to church, I will buy you a car.”
So over the next few weeks, the young man bust his butt. He gets his grades in order, even making the deans list. He starts going to church on Sundays, studies his Bible every night, and even finds time to join a youth group during the week.
With his birthday just around the corner, he finds his father and asks if he has done well enough to justify a vehicle.
His dad smiles and says, “I am very proud of all that you’ve done son, but I also asked you to cut that hair. So, no.
The boy, dejected but not defeated, looks at him and says, “Ahhhh, but father, in my time studying the Bible I noticed a fair few things. Most notably, many prominent men that you look up to have long hair. Moses was said to have long hair, many of the disciples had long hair, and even Jesus had long hair. So I don’t think it’s too far out of the question for me to keep my hair this way.
His dad looks at him and says, “That may be true, but if you would have studied a little harder, you’d have noticed all those guys walked everywhere.”