Amos 7:2 · World English Bible
Amos 7:2 Meaning When They Finished Eating the Grass
When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
What does Amos 7:2 mean?
Jacob is the small, undeveloped state of your own awareness, the tiny image of God in you before it has grown to its full stature. He is called small because that is exactly what he is at the start, a low and contracted sense of being, not yet aware of the power he carries.
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Jacob is the small, undeveloped state of your own awareness, the tiny image of God in you before it has grown to its full stature. He is called small because that is exactly what he is at the start, a low and contracted sense of being, not yet aware of the power he carries. The question, by whom shall Jacob arise, is answered by no one outside; only the power already seated within him can lift him, expanding that little reflection test by test until it reaches its height.
The grass eaten to the ground is the stripping of the old growth, the leveling of everything a person leaned on, so that nothing outside is left to rise by. What is small must be enlarged from within, since Jacob names the capacity to grow. God sees himself reflected small in you and enlarges that reflection over time until you and that power are one.
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Live Amos 7:2 today
- When you feel too small for what is in front of you, do not argue with the feeling. Just take one step from the larger version of yourself and let the size follow the step.
- With someone who is barely starting out, a new coworker, your kid, a friend trying something, treat the small beginning with respect. Speak to who they are growing into.
- When the usual supports fall away, the help does not come, the plan collapses, let that be the point where you grow instead of the point where you quit. Nothing outside is left to rise by, which leaves the real thing.
What in me is small because it has not been used yet?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Tao Te Ching
A tall tree begins as something you could crush with one hand. Small is where great things honestly start.
Buddhism
A mind is trained the way a jar fills from single drops. Nothing outside can grow it for you, and nothing inside is too small to grow.
Hinduism · Chandogya Upanishad
The self inside you is smaller than a seed and larger than the sky. The tiny thing and the vast thing are one.
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