1 Chronicles 21:8 · World English Bible
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
There is a moment when a person sees clearly what unconscious action has cost, and something in them breaks open. David, having numbered his people in the pride of the mind, suddenly wakes to the folly of it.
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EGO & BEING
There is a moment when a person sees clearly what unconscious action has cost, and something in them breaks open. David, having numbered his people in the pride of the mind, suddenly wakes to the folly of it. This is not the ego's guilt, which only recycles the past and calls it remorse. It is the deeper recognition that the whole thing was done in sleep.
To call it foolishness rather than merely wrong is honest, for unconsciousness is the root of all harm. And to ask that the iniquity be done away is to let it go completely, not to carry it as a story of self-punishment. When you see that you acted from unawareness, the seeing begins to free you, because you are no longer the one who did it but the one now awake to it.
Ego v. Being lens
What were you not awake to when you did the thing you keep replaying?
Harm comes from not seeing clearly, not from a bad essence in you. Seeing the ignorance is already the beginning of its end.
If someone shows me I was wrong, I change gladly, for I was the one being hurt by the error. There is no need to add punishment to correction.
Turning means naming the act plainly, making it right, and then walking forward. Carrying it as an identity is not repentance; it is another kind of hiding.
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