Isaiah 11:1 · World English Bible
Isaiah 11:1 Meaning A Shoot Will Come Out
A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
What does Isaiah 11:1 mean?
Jesse is the bare awareness of being, the root, the plain sense that you are, out of which the whole line of David rises. The stem looks cut down, the situation finished, and still a rod comes forth from it.
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Jesse is the bare awareness of being, the root, the plain sense that you are, out of which the whole line of David rises. The stem looks cut down, the situation finished, and still a rod comes forth from it. That rod is the creative power itself, Christ, brought out of your own awareness to bring a wonder child to birth. The imagination that is Jesse becomes David, all humanity gathered into one, and fathers itself as the eternal Father.
This is not merely a fresh self that grows because the old one refused to quit. The branch out of the roots is the one power in you giving birth to itself. What looked like a dead stump was the living ground of your own being. Out of it the awakened self is born, and it turns and calls you Father, so you learn that you were God the whole time.
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Live Isaiah 11:1 today
- Take the part of your life that looks like a dead end right now and stop reading it as finished. Spend two minutes feeling what the next chapter out of it would be like, from the inside.
- Call or text one person whose situation seems hopeless and talk to them about what comes next, not about how bad it is. People often need someone else to hold the next chapter for a while.
- When something collapses this week, a plan, a deal, a conversation, hold off on the verdict. The stump is not the story, and you do not have to decide today what grows from it.
What have I already buried that might still be living ground?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 40
All things turn and return, and in the deepest low point the movement reverses. What looks like the end of a thing is the ground it comes back out of.
Zhuangzi
The useless, gnarled, cut-back tree is the one still standing, because what seems finished has its own life. Judging by appearance you would have written it off.
Buddhism · Vimalakirti Sutra
Lotuses do not grow on dry high ground but in the mud of low wet places. The awakened state comes out of the mess of an ordinary life, not away from it.
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