Allegories Volume 4 E-Book

Renier-Fréduman Mundil

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 88

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The following collection in 4 volumes contains just over 60 short stories, each short story is based on a biblical passage from the New Testament like a parable and is applied to our time. A short time to catch your breath, a short time perhaps to reflect, a short time perhaps to delve deeper. Although Christ used everyday life for his parables they still leave a deep impression today. They are easy to remember with a hidden important message that we discover when we think about them. I invite you to take a deeper look at them and recognise the relevance for our everyday lives today.

Leseprobe

For Celestine

Index

1 Groundbreaking or Working Faith

2 Late Turnaround

3 Fisher Of Men

4 Pecuniary Non-theory Of Relativity

5 High Times Before The Low

6 The Unknown Double Mark

7 Untalented Talent (?)

8 The Smallest Greatest

9 Watery Fire

10 The Lost Sinner

11 (Not) Guilty Guilt/Grace

12 Odd Packaging

13 Participating listener

14 Miracles in disguise

15 Homeless Foreign homeland

1. Groundbreaking or Working Faith

The word had spread everywhere. The country was filled with the news. Without television, telephone, cell phone, newspaper, internet, courier service, it had spread a thousand times faster: the incredible news of his miracles. There was nothing he couldn't do. Reading someone else's mind. Recognizing the pitfalls of the law in good time. Maneuvering between the various powers without becoming vulnerable. He was the bright ray of sunshine for children, the hero of youth, the hope of women in their oppressed position, the light on the horizon for the poor, the needy, the desperate, the terminally ill, the possessed, the weary, the lame, the blind, the lepers, beggars, thieves, prostitutes, tax collectors.

And now he had come to their village. Sitting in a small house, people hanging in the windows so that at least one of his glances would catch them, an uncountable crowd gathered around the house, shouting, tugging, everyone fighting to get a few centimeters closer to him.

Nathan lay on his bed. For many years. Paralyzed in the legs, only a few of his arm muscles still animated with some strength. There was a knock. Before he answered, the door opened. His brother and his friend entered, his father and one of his uncles were waiting outside.

We'll take you to him, Eli said.

To whom? Nathan's voice was weak.

To the Lord. He has come to our village. A great miracle for us.

He won't allow me to see him. We have no money.

The Lord does not take money. It is an advantage that you are poor. The first time in your life that poverty is an advantage.

What should I tell him?

Nothing, he knows why we're bringing you.

He will ask about my faith. I've been lying on this bed too long to have faith.

He will see our faith and it will be enough for him.

You need your faith for yourselves. Don't you have any requests for him?

Yes, but your request comes first. It is greater.

The years had made him bitter, suspicious. Was it not selfishness on the part of the others, they no longer had to worry about him once he was healthy. On the contrary. He was in their debt. The many years of their help. They would expect him to repay them to the best of his ability.

He was lost in bitter thoughts when they dragged him out into the daylight. The sun was blinding, he hid his face under the blanket. Outside, people were shouting, their venomous looks could be felt through the woolen blanket as they had to leave because of him. But his friends were undeterred, spreading the crowd like a plow ripping up the earth.

There was nowhere to go in front of the house. It was impossible to get in. No-one was prepared to give way any further, no-one who was in the house would voluntarily come out to make way for him.

Eli, his friend, jumped onto a man's shoulder and from there on to the roof of the house. It was lightning fast. Before the crowd knew it, the first bricks fell to the ground. Seized by terror, the people scattered. The friends carried the stretcher through the cleared passageway and Eli kept tearing the tiles off the roof. Then they lifted him up and carefully lowered him into the house, right in front of the Lord's feet.

The Lord did not look up, he had long since seen everything.

It became deathly quiet. No-one dared to breathe. Even the teachers of the law, who were busy arguing, were silent.

Jesus thought about the faith that the people had shown. And the Lord said to him:

Your sins are forgiven. (Luke 5:20)

And he knew that the Lord could not lie.

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2. Late Turnaround