2 Chronicles 6:38 · World English Bible
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
Carried far into a captor's land, they learn the way back is not a road but a turning of the heart, praying toward the chosen place with all they have. The trap is believing distance and defeat have canceled the account, that too far means forgotten.
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Carried far into a captor's land, they learn the way back is not a road but a turning of the heart, praying toward the chosen place with all they have. The trap is believing distance and defeat have canceled the account, that too far means forgotten.
The cure is the undivided return, heart and soul aimed one way, keeping nothing back. And the house they pray toward is not the real destination. The One whose name it carries is already near in the prayer itself.
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What have you decided is too late, and who told you that?
Returning is the movement of the way. Nothing goes so far out that the turn back is unavailable, because the turn is the nature of the thing.
The Jewish teaching on return holds that no distance cancels the road home, and the turn is made where you stand, not where you wish you were. It asks the whole person, not a piece.
Krishna tells Arjuna that even one who has done the worst can turn with an undivided heart and be met. What counts is the wholeness of the turning, not the record behind it.
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