Ezekiel 47:5 · World English Bible
Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through.
Capacity gets issued while you are moving, which is why the edge of anything never feels survivable from the edge. Water that would drown a person standing ankle-deep at the bank carries them a thousand cubits in, and nothing has changed about the water.
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Capacity gets issued while you are moving, which is why the edge of anything never feels survivable from the edge.
Water that would drown a person standing ankle-deep at the bank carries them a thousand cubits in, and nothing has changed about the water. Each measured advance builds exactly what the next depth requires, so the belief moves from this will take me under to this will hold me, the state steadies, and the steadier state makes the following thousand possible.
The river pours out of the sanctuary and it does not rise for anyone admiring it from dry ground. Depth is granted to the walking. Waiting at the shallows for proof of buoyancy keeps a person ankle-deep for life, skilled only at what the shallows ask of them.
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What have I been waiting at the edge of, hoping for proof before I move?
A thousand mile walk begins under your own feet, and the ground you need next appears only because you took the step before it.
The teaching is to walk on, and the way opens as you walk. Standing still at the edge to calculate whether the path will hold you keeps you on the edge.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. The fear you feel from the bank is measuring water you have not yet entered.
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