Isaiah 50:2 · World English Bible
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
The power to rescue was never the thing in short supply. What went missing was the person who would show up when the summons came.
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The power to rescue was never the thing in short supply. What went missing was the person who would show up when the summons came. People imagine their suffering persists because help is absent, when the harder fact is that they were called and did not answer. They stood in the doorway and would not walk through.
Consider what it means that the sea itself yields, that rivers can be turned to dust, and yet one human being refuses the offer of rescue. The refusal belongs to the one who makes it. No cosmic weakness holds anyone in place. A man stays stuck because when his name was called, he looked away and pretended not to hear.
Clinical Psychology lens
What have you been treating as impossible when it is really just unanswered?
The teachers say the gate is open and has always been open. What keeps people outside is standing in front of it discussing whether to enter.
Krishna tells Arjuna that the help is already present, but he must still pick up the bow and act. Paralysis dressed as thinking is still a choice.
Rumi wrote that the door has been open for years and we keep knocking from the inside. The locked feeling is ours, not the door's.
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