Well, will try to explain what I saw in the story, and why I added the scriptures I did too.
The key to the story IMV is the very last sentence Dori.
Where the elder guy rebuked the younger for worrying about this all this time before bringing it to him, saying anything at all.
Or in other words bothering to carry things around with you, that we should not have to in the first place.
When he should have brought it up before he did to the old guy. So the guy ansered him the way he did about him carrying that girl all this time, when he got rid of the load once he carried her across the river. Not that the young guy was literally carrying the girl around all that time either. but used it as an example none the less of doing so because of not coming to him until he did.
And immediately it came to me the moral of that story for the believer is written in Hebr. 12;
1: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Meaning he should have asked the old master that day why he did it in the first place, then dropped it rather than carrying it (her) around all this time worrying about why in the first place.
I just copied the entire chapter there. Because I could see how some of the following will happen if we do try to carry certain things around with us, we need to take to Jesus, allowing Him to take care of it, instead of our trying to do so our own way.
In that case the elder was the master, but in our case Jesus is our Master, our needing to give these things to Him instead. Which verse 2 tells us to do. Otherwise it can become a weight or sin if we do not do so eventually. Except we all try to handle things our way, I know. But if we do carry problems very long, then they can turn into weights and sins.
Just a story with a moral, the moral in the last sentence is all.
I immediately got the scripture upon reading the last sentence there relating it to mainly Hebr. 12:1-2. Did anyone else get the scriptures over there? Probably not.
I also find it somewhat amusing so often these little dittys, that people come up with, like confucious says and etc. that seems so wise is written in the scriptures already, if you just know where. Like that one, the young guy not bringing it to the old guy before, but fretted and worried about it all that time. Like we do with many things that we need to take to the Lord, letting him take care of it, and go on as well. Rather than getting in a dither about it for days on end. Our not being able to change it ourselves anyway. That is when we begin to take on these weights and sins in the first place. But even when we do, we still need to take them lay them aside at the cross and go on. Right? That being the moral of the whole story as I see it anyway.
Marge is pretty good at these things, What do you think Marge?
Just a story that has a message to it, but mostly the important part being at the end concerning what both did.
Could be more to it. but I an not going to pick that up, trying to figure that out, and ending up worrying and freeting about it at all. :--) But I see you didn't do so with any of it, which was the right on thing to do too.
Glad you liked the scriptures, that being the main thing anyways.
And I (Jesus) say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. (Lk. 11:9-10)
Luv Sandy
