2 Kings 6:15 · World English Bible
When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
A frightened question aims the eyes at the threat and leaves the resources standing unseen on the same ground. Asked in a rush, what do we do now works as a scanning instruction, sending the mind out to count enemy horses, and it returns an accurate and complete inventory of everything able to kill a person.
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A frightened question aims the eyes at the threat and leaves the resources standing unseen on the same ground.
Asked in a rush, what do we do now works as a scanning instruction, sending the mind out to count enemy horses, and it returns an accurate and complete inventory of everything able to kill a person. Accuracy is what makes the filter convincing; nothing in the count is false, and the count is still wrong.
The man of God prays for opened eyes rather than for reinforcements, because the second army was in position before the servant ever woke. What needed changing was the search, not the supply. Running the panic question costs a person the strength they spend bracing for a defeat the full facts never required.
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What have I counted carefully today, and what did I leave out of the count entirely?
He wrote that the mind takes the color of what it dwells on. Spend the morning counting threats and the whole day comes back the color of threat.
What you water grows. Attention is the water, and panic is a very thorough gardener.
Too much looking blinds, too much listening deafens. A full and accurate survey of the danger can still leave a person completely unable to see.
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