1 Samuel 17:26 · World English Bible
David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
The man who ends a standoff is almost always the one asking a different question than everyone else in the line. Asking how to survive a threat sends the mind looking for cover, and a mind that finds only cover settles into dread, and dread is what keeps an army standing in formation for forty days.
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The man who ends a standoff is almost always the one asking a different question than everyone else in the line.
Asking how to survive a threat sends the mind looking for cover, and a mind that finds only cover settles into dread, and dread is what keeps an army standing in formation for forty days. A question about what ending it is worth sends that same mind hunting for an opening.
The living God is inside the question itself, which is why it returns a different answer. A primary question carried for years in empty fields had built its answer long before the giant existed, and a mind holding that answer does not stop to consult the odds. Keep the question the line is asking and a person spends their life standing ready at the edge of a fight someone else finally settles.
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What question have I been asking for years that keeps handing me the same answer?
A monk asked whether a dog has Buddha nature and Zhaozhou answered with a single word that refuses the question. The student is sent away holding a better one.
Do not ask that things happen as you wish. Ask what this situation is asking of you, and the same event stops being a disaster and becomes work.
Arjuna asks how to escape the battle and is answered about what is his to do. The way out of dread was never more information, it was a better question.
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