1 Samuel 14:6 · World English Bible
Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
Commit the body before the odds are settled, because the evidence a person wants always shows up behind the action. Counting the enemy first always produces a number that justifies staying put: the count sets the state, the state sets the emotion, and fear has never once launched anybody up a cliff face.
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Commit the body before the odds are settled, because the evidence a person wants always shows up behind the action.
Counting the enemy first always produces a number that justifies staying put: the count sets the state, the state sets the emotion, and fear has never once launched anybody up a cliff face. Moving on a maybe is the whole difference between a belief someone holds and a belief someone lives.
The freedom of Yahweh to save by many or by few stays information until somebody bets their body on it, and the betting is what turns it into conviction. Wait for the guarantee and a person spends a lifetime with excellent instincts and nothing built out of them.
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What belief am I holding that I have never once bet anything on?
The teaching is to step off the hundred foot pole, because no amount of standing on it brings the ground closer. Understanding comes after the step, not before.
Arjuna is told to act, not to finish settling the odds first. The clarity he wanted arrives inside the action, never in front of it.
Rumi says to start walking and the road appears under your feet. The way does not get shown to people standing still.
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