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Isaiah 53:1 · World English Bible

Isaiah 53:1 Meaning Who Has Believed Our Message

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

What does Isaiah 53:1 mean?

The report almost no one believes is the plain claim that imagination makes reality, that the world answers to an inner state and not the other way round. The arm of the Lord means creative power, and it stays hidden because people look for causes outside themselves.

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The report almost no one believes is the plain claim that imagination makes reality, that the world answers to an inner state and not the other way round. The arm of the Lord means creative power, and it stays hidden because people look for causes outside themselves. They credit circumstance, luck, other men, anything but the state they are secretly holding. Yet the power that shapes events is that state, felt as certain until it appears. Few accept this. It asks a person to reverse everything he assumed about cause. The arm is revealed only to the one who turns inward and finds creation beginning there, in his own assumed feeling of being.

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Live Isaiah 53:1 today

  1. Catch yourself blaming the traffic, the algorithm, the market, the weather. Then ask honestly what you were already assuming about your day before any of it happened.
  2. If a friend says they are stuck because of circumstances, listen fully, then gently ask what they believe is true about themselves in that situation. Do not argue. Just open the door.
  3. Under real pressure, when the facts look decided, hold a different inner verdict without announcing it. You do not need anyone to accept your report for it to work.

Where are you crediting the outside world for something your own belief set in motion?

The same truth in other traditions

Dhammapada 1

We are made by our own minds. What a person thinks today he becomes tomorrow, though almost nobody believes the cause is that near.

Zen · Huang Po

People run everywhere searching for a power that is already doing the searching. That is why so few ever find it.

Tao Te Ching 70

The teaching is simple and easy to practice, and still hardly anyone takes it up. It is not hidden. It is just unbelieved.

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