1 Kings 18:26 · World English Bible
They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
Effort inside a method that cannot work is the most convincing way a person avoids changing the method. Intensity is the easiest link on the chain to change, which is why it is the first one people reach for when nothing comes back.
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Effort inside a method that cannot work is the most convincing way a person avoids changing the method.
Intensity is the easiest link on the chain to change, which is why it is the first one people reach for when nothing comes back. The belief that this altar answers sets the state, the state delivers urgency, urgency drives more volume and more motion, and half a day of it compounds into nothing but proof that more was tried.
Sincerity was never the variable. The silence was not a verdict on their commitment. A person can spend years at maximum effort inside a method that was never going to answer, and the cost is the years, while the belief that spent them comes through untouched.
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Where have you mistaken how hard you are trying for evidence that you are on the right road?
A man who polishes a brick all his life will never hold a mirror. More effort on the wrong material is still the wrong material.
Force is followed by loss of strength. What strains against the way of things wears out the one straining, not the obstacle.
Effort only counts as right effort when it is pointed the right way. Energy alone is not virtue, and sincerity does not make a dead end into a road.
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