Seorang Kakek hidup di suatu perkebunan di suatu pegunungan sebelah timur Negara bagian Kentucky (Amerika) dengan cucu lelakinya yg masih muda. Setiap pagi Kakek bangun lebih awal dan membaca Alkitab di meja makan di dapurnya. Cucu lelakinya ingin sekali menjadi seperti kakeknya dan mencoba untuk menirunya dalam cara apapun semampunya.
Suatu hari sang cucu bertanya, " Kakek! Aku mencoba untuk membaca Alkitab seperti yang kakek lakukan tetapi aku tidak memahaminya, dan apa yang aku pahami aku lupa secepat aku menutup buku. Apa sih kebaikan dari membaca Alkitab?" Dengan tenang sang Kakek mengambil keranjang tempat arang, memutar sambil melobangi keranjangnya ia menjawab, " Bawa keranjang ini ke sungai dan bawa kemari lagi penuhi dengan air."
Maka sang cucu melakukan seperti yang diperintahkan kakek, tetapi semua air habis menetes sebelum tiba di depan rumahnya. Kakek tertawa dan berkata, "Lain kali kamu harus melakukukannya lebih cepat lagi," Maka ia menyuruh cucunya kembali ke sungai dengan keranjang tsb untuk dicoba lagi. Sang cucu berlari lebih cepat, tetapi tetap, lagi2 keranjangnya kosong sebelum ia tiba di depan rumah. Dengan terengah-engah, ia berkata kepada kakeknya bahwa mustahil membawa air dari sungai dengan keranjang yang sudah dibolongi, maka sang cucu mengambil ember sebagai gantinya. Sang kakek berkata, " Aku tidak mau ember itu; aku hanya mau keranjang arang itu. Ayolah, usaha kamu kurang cukup," maka sang kakek pergi ke luar pintu untuk mengamati usaha cucu laki-lakinya itu.
Cucunya yakin sekali bahwa hal itu mustahil, tetapi ia tetap ingin menunjukkan kepada kakeknya, biar sekalipun ia berlari secepat-cepatnya, air tetap akan bocor keluar sebelum ia sampai ke rumah. Sekali lagi sang cucu mengambil air ke dalam sungai dan berlari sekuat tenaga menghampiri kakek, tetapi ketika ia sampai didepan kakek keranjang sudah kosong lagi.
Sambil terengah-engah ia berkata, " Lihat Kek, percuma!" " Jadi kamu pikir percuma?" Jawab kakek. Kakek berkata, " Lihatlah keranjangnya. " Sang cucu menurut, melihat ke dalam keranjangnya dan untuk pertama kalinya menyadari bahwa keranjang itu sekarang berbeda. Keranjang itu TELAH BERUBAH dari keranjang arang yang tua kotor dan kini BERSIH LUAR DAN DALAM.
"Cucuku, hal itulah yang terjadi ketika kamu MEMBACA ALKITAB. Kamu TIDAK BISA MEMAHAMI atau INGAT segalanya, tetapi KETIKA kamu MEMBACANYA LAGI, kamu AKAN BERUBAH, luar dalam. Itu adalah KARUNIA dari ALLAH di dalam hidup kita."Mazmur 119 : 9, 105
GOD BLESS YOU
Benefits of Reading the Bible
A grandfather lived in a plantation on a mountain east of the State of Kentucky (United States) with his grandson who is still young. Each morning Grandpa was up early and reading the Bible at the dinner table in her kitchen. Grandson wanted to be like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bible like a grandfather but I do not understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I closed the book. What good does reading the Bible?" With his quiet grandfather took place charcoal basket, rotating basket to make a hole while he replied, "Take this basket to the river and bring it here again filled with water."
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he arrived in front of his house. The grandfather laughed and said, "Next time you'll have to move even more quickly," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. The boy ran faster, but still, lagi2 basket is empty before he arrived in front of the house. With panting, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to bring water from the river with a basket that has been dibolongi, and he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, "I do not want a bucket of water; I just want the charcoal basket. Come, ye strive hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.
His grandson was convinced that it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather, even though he ran full speed, the water would leak out before he got to the house. Once again he went to get water into the river and ran hard toward grandfather, but when he arrived in front of the grandfather the basket was empty again.
Panting he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!" "So you think it's useless?" Answer grandfather. Grandpa said, "Look at the basket." The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. HAS CHANGED basket of dirty old coal basket and now CLEAN OUTSIDE AND INSIDE.
"Son, that's what happens when you READ THE BIBLE. You CAN NOT understand or remember everything, but WHEN you read it again, you WILL BE CHANGED, inside and out. It is a Gift of GOD in our lives." Psalm 119: 9, 105
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