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Genesis 17:2 · World English Bible

Genesis 17:2 Meaning I Will Make My Covenant Between Me

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

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What does Genesis 17:2 mean?

What love shares with a mind cannot be kept small. The covenant is the bond between the mind and its Source, and its nature is to increase, for everything true extends itself the moment it is accepted.

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What love shares with a mind cannot be kept small. The covenant is the bond between the mind and its Source, and its nature is to increase, for everything true extends itself the moment it is accepted. This multiplying is not the ego's kind of gain, which adds by taking from another. It is the natural spreading of a gift that grows by being given, losing nothing as it goes.

When a mind joins with love, it does not merely receive. It becomes a place through which love keeps extending, and that endless giving is what it means to be multiplied.

Covenant: the unbroken bond between the mind and its Source, the shared truth that increases by being extended

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Live Genesis 17:2 today

  1. Something good came to you recently, a kindness, a bit of relief, a piece of luck. Pass one small piece of it on today without telling anyone you did.
  2. When someone shares good news in a group chat today, add to it instead of quietly measuring it against your own. Say the specific thing you are glad about.
  3. In a tight moment at work where there is credit or attention to go around, name someone else's part out loud. You will lose nothing, which is the whole point.

Where are you still treating love like a limited supply you have to ration?

The same truth in other traditions

Buddhism · Metta Sutta

Let your goodwill radiate outward without limit, above, below and all around, holding back nothing. It is not divided by the number of beings it reaches.

Tao Te Ching 81

The sage gives and is not diminished. The more that flows outward, the fuller the source turns out to be.

Sufism · Rumi

Love is not a pot that empties as you pour. Pour it out, and you find the pouring itself was the filling.

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