The farmers unknown debt

Once upon a time in a very far away land lived a humble farmer who was in a heap of a lot of trouble and he didn’t even know it. He had no idea that his life was at risk!

You see, a long, long time ago, many generations before he was born his kingdom had fought a brutal war with the neighboring kingdom. His kingdom was trying to conquer the neighboring kingdom but they lost the war and were forever banned from setting foot on the neighboring kingdom’s soil.

But this was not the only consequence for their selfish aggression. They also inquired a debt. The neighboring king demanded that the debt be paid and if it could not He would take their lives as payment for all the harm and hurt they had inflicted for He had no guarantee that they would ever stop their selfish crusades.

But all this had happened so-so long ago. In fact many people where unaware that a war had ever taken place. The farmer had heard about this neighboring kingdom, but his own kingdom was so vast and so very large that he had never seen it himself nor did he see the need to.

Yet a series of events would change that for ever. It so happened that during the farmers life time the neighboring king sent a messenger to warn the farmer’s kingdom that He was returning to collect the debt they owed Him. But the messenger had a very peculiar message. It sounded much more like a riddle than a message and no one took him too seriously; after all, they had never seen the king he spoke of.

He didn’t look like an important person and he didn’t spend very much time with the important people of the farmer’s kingdom either. He would warn people about paying their debts saying, “Tis impossible to pay your debt, this I know. So, place on me your bet, and you shall go. Death will be paid, but let it be through me that you find your aid.”

It wasn’t long after that the king of the farmer’s kingdom had the man arrested telling him to stop bothering the people with silly riddles and filling their mind with non-sense about a debt his country supposedly owed to a man they had never seen. The, messenger was released but he would not stop. From house to house he went through the countryside speaking to whom ever would listen.

So the king had him arrested and killed saying, “Here’s to the fool who thought he had wisdom, when his own life he could not ransom.” But, simple as the farmer was he had believed that man and some how he knew that on that day things had forever changed.

He suddenly realized that a burden had been lifted from his weary shoulders. His eyes were opened and he began to see the misery his fellow men where living in, the misery that he at one time had called a “happy life!”

But the biggest change, of coarse, happened within the farmers heart. He was now a free man, his debt had been paid and he knew that one day he would be able to set foot on that neighboring kingdom he had never seen!