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Book Description:
“The Sixth Witness Testament” is Part 19 of The Book Of Benjamin Kareth series: “God is a storyteller, the great story teller and we, as His children, are storytellers as well. This is more of the telling of my story and more of my journey in my relationship with God on this earth. My hope is that the words contained within will inspire you to tell others your story with God as well and in this way the whole earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
A Glimpse Inside:
Chapter 11: The Only Holy Search
April 27th, 2022, 8:21am – My House, Redding, CA, USA:
The only holy search is the one that searches for God for Himself and for no other reason. The long desire of heart to find rest can only be truly satisfied in the discovery of God as Himself and in the discovery of God as Creator. Search now… Him. Find Him.
What is it that brought you here? To this book to read. Questions of a man and his life? No. You are searching for Him who hides. The one these books speak of. Him is who you seek as you read. To satisfy that longing in you to know Him.
So, keep reading. I’ll keep walking upward, higher. What I find I’ll write about. This is my purpose for being. My purpose for solitude. My purpose for obscurity in this world. The cost to know Him is ones very life. This is what He, God, the Great I AM, meant when He said that no man can see His face and live. So, I must die to see His face. And this death is a death of being known. Being seen. Being found by others. For that is the cost of truly seeing His face.
I contemplate the depth and seriousness of these words I write today. Their implication is not lost on me at all. As I sit in my two-bedroom home in Redding, California, in my large recliner. My new laptop sits beneath my fingers as they move over these keys. The house is being emptied of all. And the people that once came over have long since gone. And are no more. There is a culling of people… but beyond that there is a culling of relationships. One by one they fade into my past. I loved them each, but now I press forward and upward. The mountain calls… the One calls… “Come!” And so, I obey… listen and obey. Is there anything else I could do now? But to GO.
Solitude. Obscurity. The Cloud of Unknowing. Like secrets long kept I’m discovering day by day. He is hidden there in that place of No Voices Other Than His. That place where He hovers over the deep waters. That is the place I am being called to. What does it look like? To become Unknown in this world for the sake of knowing Him. I don’t have an answer yet and I am guessing that when I do find that answer… and write down the answer… only a select few could understand anything that has been written. How can one write about the One who can’t really be written about? How can one press past what is to find who IS? Him… and somehow that is my calling. What a wonder it is?! Dive in… deep waters… deepest mysteries. Come. Up higher. Climb the ladder… walk the path un-walked. Follow the trail hidden for the hidden ones to find and follow.
Chapter 12: The Unknowing
April 30th, 2022, 7:21am – My House, Redding, CA, USA:
First a testimony of the faithfulness of God, weeks ago I had this vision of me writing books on a MacBook laptop. So, as I always seem to do, I rushed ahead of God and traded my Apply Watch and Nintendo Switch for an old 2016 MacBook laptop. It was small and the keyboard on it was terrible. I instantly hated it. It was very uncomfortable and felt very wrong. I knew it wasn’t the MacBook that I had seen in my vision. And God had told me to be patient, and He would provide the perfect one… but as always, my impatience got the better of me. Skip forward… as I began to sell off all the stuff in my house here in preparations to move again… I had the cash to buy a new MacBook… one that would run both my writing apps and my design apps… one with which I could do all my work on. Well, I did a ton of research on the newer MacBooks and settled on the 16” MacBook Pro 2021 version… I wanted the 1TB version… which cost retail $2900. That was out of my price range so I figured I would have to settle on the base model… well I decided to find a refurbished one… usually these are just returns that are still in perfect condition… so I looked at Best Buy’s stock in Redding and they had none… so last Sunday I decided to drive the two hours south to Sacramento to a Best Buy there to see what they had in stock… anyways… long story short… they had the 1TB version for $2130… which was even cheaper than the base model for $2375. Don’t ask me how this is possible, but God blessed me so much and I’m trying now on my newer MacBook Pro. This is a larger laptop, and the keyboard is very nice and comfortable, and the screen is large. It is powerful enough to run all the software that I need to continue to work for God. Blessed I am. And hopefully another lesson in trust and patience under my belt.
Last night I was talking with God, and it seems from that conversation that I am going into a season of the Unknowing. My mind and thoughts can’t hold any more knowledge of God… now is the season of knowing God with my heart and spirit. Not sure what this looks like… if you’ve ever met me, I’m very MIND over emotions or any other part of me. I think constantly and overthink everything. My mind seems to be my dominant part. Maybe that is a shield I keep up to protect my heart from people and the world. Who knows. But the truth is that we cannot serve God rationally… that is a part of it but not the greatest part at all.
God is spirit… and I am still a child with the things of God. In one way that really depresses me, and, in another way, it is encouragement. I am still a child. I am still learning the basics of faith and walking in the Holy Spirit. I find it kind of funny that with everything I’ve experienced of the Lord I have only experienced child things so far. From what I’ve learned there are two more “stages” of the journey: Sonship and Fatherhood. Both sound scary as hell… I am still in the child stage of my faith. What comes next or how to get there are both hidden in God… they are beyond me and so I just must trust the process to Him and keep walking forward.
So… I guess a very physical update is in order… I am sitting in my recliner in my two-bedroom house in Redding, California. Tonight, I will sell my large TV, recliner, and another shelf that’s in my office to my neighbors. My couch has sold as well as some other things. My house has become very, very empty. My friend Alec is visiting from May 10th to May 17th, and we are going to spend some time at the beach together. It will be our farewell time. I talked with my landlords, and I am turning in my keys on June 1st and then I’ll head out for the next destination. For now, I’ll just leave it at that. God gave me this house and these things and now it’s time for me to let them all go. Time to head back out to traveling. Toward the unknown and the unknowing. Toward Him. Toward the still, small voice within the cloud. Toward the next, upward higher, deeper, and all that.
Chapter 27: Giving Away The Promise
July 1st, 2022, 8:49am – The Farm, Meridian, TX, USA:
About 4 years ago God wrenched me from my selfish life and put me on a path of obedience. That path led me to giving everything away that I owned… down to nothing but the clothes on my back. He even asked me to give away my vehicle at the time which was my very home. I did. And that changed me forever. While I was without a car God took me car shopping and promised me a RAV4. Last year God provided one. A beautiful 2019 RAV4, white, perfect for me. God kept His promise in His own timing. And I knew when I bought that RAV4 that the day would come that God would ask me to give it away as well.
Today is that day. At 5pm I will meet my friends for dinner and give away my RAV4. When I gave away the first car it was one of the most difficult decisions of my life. But today… this one is easy. I know God more than I did 4 years ago. I know WHO God is more. He is the PROVIDER. He is provision. He is my source.
Days like this prove that my life belongs to God alone. I am grateful for this journey and for the times I get to show who God is to others. The God of all grace is my God.
I still have not heard back from the University of Haifa about going to school, but I’ve made up my mind to GO to Israel at the end of September. School or no school… I’m going… because it’s time to GO. I feel that with every fiber of my being. So… giving away my car is just another step in the direction God is leading me. Listen and obey, He commanded me 4 years ago. And so that is what I do.
God is breaking all self-sufficiency in me. There can be none of that terrible sin left. He must be my all. I’ll let no material, temporal thing rule over me. Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I shall return to the earth. So, I will live as I came, completely dependent on God alone for life, breath, and future.
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