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Isaiah 66:2 · World English Bible

Isaiah 66:2 Meaning For My Hand Has Made All These

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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What does Isaiah 66:2 mean?

The Maker who spread the whole sky says His gaze rests not on the grand thing but on the humbled heart. That overturns the pride that measures worth by size and having, that builds a tall house and forgets who owns the ground beneath it.

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The Maker who spread the whole sky says His gaze rests not on the grand thing but on the humbled heart. That overturns the pride that measures worth by size and having, that builds a tall house and forgets who owns the ground beneath it.

The cure is a softened spirit, the honest self-examination that trembles at what is true and stops pretending to be more. Here is the wonder: the One whose hand made everything chooses the low heart for His dwelling, the quiet, contrite person He steps close to see.

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Live Isaiah 66:2 today

  1. Say the true version of one thing about yourself today, the version with no spin, and say it where only you can hear. Not a beating, just a plain accounting, and then stay still for a minute instead of moving to fix it.
  2. In a conversation today, let someone be right and say so without adding a but. If your partner or a coworker corrects you on something small, try you are right, I had that wrong, and leave the sentence there.
  3. When you are under pressure and the pull is to sound more certain than you are, say I do not know instead. In a meeting, on a call, to your kid, the honest version costs less than the performance.

What have you been pretending to be more sure of than you are?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 8

Water takes the lowest place and that is the source of its strength, finding its way into every crack that height cannot reach. Going low is not a defeat, it is how something gets everywhere.

Zen · Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki taught that the beginner's mind is the one with room in it, and the expert's mind is full. What you think you already have is what keeps the next thing out.

Stoicism · Epictetus

Epictetus said it is impossible to learn what you think you already know, so the first step is the honest admission that you do not. The softness comes before the seeing, not after.

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