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Part 9: The First Collection Of Parables – “The First Collection Of Parables” is Part 9 of The Book Of Benjamin Kareth. This is the first collection of parables given to me by the Holy Spirit. They are presented here in the order in which they were given. This book contains 127 parables (short stories).
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Part 9: The First Collection Of Parables
Chapter 1: The Man And The Sand
There once was a boy who lived by the shore.
One day he went out and put his feet onto the sand of the beach and bending down picked up one piece of sand. He gazed at it in the palm of his hand for what seemed like hours. It was so beautiful. He decided to keep it.
And so, dashing back into the house he got a jar from his mother and placed that single piece of sand into it. The next day he returned to the shore, picked up another single piece of sand, and dashed back into the house and placed it with the other piece. He did this every day that followed.
He never moved away from that shore… and never missed picking up and saving a new piece of sand each morning. He would show the jar to his friends. It was his life’s work. A jar with sand collected on each day of his life… piece by piece.
Now the boy become a man and the man became old. But always his day started with collecting a new piece of sand and adding it to that jar. Soon the man died sleeping peacefully in his bed. When a friend discovered that he had died, the friend called the people to come and collect his body.
There were two men who came to collect him. When one of the men stood by the bed looking down on the dead man, he noticed a jar next to the bed with sand in it. It was about a quarter full. “Look at this!” He laughed at his friend. “A jar with sand in it.” They both had a great laugh over this. After a short laugh the man picked up the jar with the sand, walked out of the house, down to the shore, unscrewed the jar’s lid and dumped the sand back onto the shore.
Chapter 4: The City Made Of Stones
Once there was a family… two parents and two children. Now these parents lived in a faraway country and the landscape was beautiful. Lush grass and everywhere you turned there were flowers. One day God appeared to the husband and wife.
“Come with me.” God said.
And so, the couple followed God up a mountain. God said, “See this mountain top? I am giving it to you. You are going to build me a city, stone by stone. And it will be a great city where my name will be praised for generations to come.” The couple were overjoyed. But as they looked around the mountaintop, they realized there was no building materials. It was flat, grassy, and even overlooked the oceans of that country. So, the couple asked God, “How can we build a city for you if we have nothing to build with?”
“Come with me.” God said.
And so, the couple followed God down the mountain to the side of it. There on the mountainside was a rock quarry full of beautiful white stones.
“You may use these stones to build my city.” God said, and then He left them.
The couple stared at the stones, then at the mountainside, and looked up toward the top. They had been given space to build the city for God and they had been given stones to use to build the city, but the mountainside was steep and quite the climb. They went home and got their children and moved to the base of the mountain. There at the base of the mountain they built a house, as they realized that it would take years to bring the stones to the top of the mountain and build the city for God.
And so, they began to work. Stone by stone the family moved one by one to the top of the mountain. They began to build a pile of stones on the mountain top. Storing them up for the work of building the city. It was hard work each day and each day the stones in the quarry were less and less. Other people came too. They joined in the work to build the city for God and built houses for themselves next to that family’s house. All of them worked hard each day, taking stone by stone to the top and building a very big pile. They worked together and that seemed to speed up the work of getting the stones to the top. More and more people came and the couple with the children thought surely, they would be able to build a city for God soon.
But one day all the stones ran out in the quarry. There were no more stones to move to the top of the mountain. They were tired and those who had labored with them were tired too. And it seemed that they would not have enough stones to build a city for God.
Then God came down and visited that family. And He asked them, “How is the building of my city going?”
“We can’t finish it.” They replied, very sad to have come so far for nothing. “We have run out of stones, and we moved as many as we could to the top of the mountain. Even all these people here have helped us… but still we cannot build a city for you now with so few stones.”
“Come with me.” God said.
And so, the couple followed God up the mountainside to the top of the mountain. And the other people who had helped came with them. God stood on the side of the mountain and waited for everyone to gather. There they stood on the mountain top. God. The couple and their two children… and the hundreds of others who had joined them in trying to build the city for God.
“Here are all the stones.” The couple told God pointing at the huge pile on top of that mountain. “But we don’t have enough to build a city for you now.”
God smiled and said, “I am so pleased.”
The couple were shocked. “Why are you pleased? We have failed you.”
Then God pointed down the mountainside… and everyone there looked to where He pointed…
There below them, at the base of the mountain, stood all the houses of all the people that had joined in the effort to build a city for God. The city at the base of the mountain was very large. Then God said, “You have not failed me. Don’t you see? You have built me a great city where I will be praised for generations to come.”
Chapter 38: A Single Drop Was All It Took
The city was large, far larger than any city that had ever been or will ever be. The city went on for miles and miles and miles, seemingly endless was this great city. And it was filled with all the peoples of the world.
One day everything changed. The city’s water supplies ran out. There was no water to be found anywhere in that vast city. Everyone was on the verge of panic. The rulers, the powers, everyone was scrambling to find water.
For a full day and half a day, the city had no water. No one drank anything. Then when the full day and half a day had gone by it got even worse, the sun was blazing hot. Everyone sought shade anywhere they could. It was the hottest day in all recorded human history.
All hope seemed lost. Then a traveler arrived in that city. He rode a simple donkey. He rode to the very heart of that water less, sun-scorched city and got off his animal. He walked up the long steps that lead to the main water plant that fed the city’s water pipes.
The security guards had long since been chased away by the people. The water plant sat unguarded and empty.
The visitor walked right up to the main tank. He opened the panel and held his hand over it. Then a single drop of blood fell. It fell for what seemed like miles to the bottom of that massive, empty water tank. It struck the bottom!
The entire water tank filled full of water in an instant! The water rushed through all the pipes of that vast city! The water pressure was so great that it burst out of every faucet in every home! The whole city was flooded with water, precious life-giving water. And there was a celebration to end all celebrations.
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