Jeremiah 17:26 · World English Bible
They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to Yahweh’s house.
Scattered people stream in from every direction, from the plain and the mountains and the far south, and they converge on one place with their hands full of offerings. A shared point of highest value pulls a fragmented population into something whole.
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Scattered people stream in from every direction, from the plain and the mountains and the far south, and they converge on one place with their hands full of offerings. A shared point of highest value pulls a fragmented population into something whole. Without that center, they are only a crowd headed nowhere in particular.
Each one carries something costly to lay down. A person orients his life by what he willingly sacrifices toward, and a whole nation orients the same way, arriving from opposite corners because they aim at the same summit. What you place at the top of the hierarchy of your attention decides which direction you walk. Point everyone at the highest good and the wandering tribe becomes a civilization.
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What is at the top for you, and would the way you spent yesterday say the same thing?
He taught that when the ruler aims at what is highest, the people arrange themselves around it the way grass bends with the wind. A shared summit turns a crowd into a people.
The Gita says a person becomes what they steadily hold their attention on, so the object of devotion shapes the devotee. You end up pointed wherever you keep looking.
He wrote that to live without a single aim is to live scattered, since every step needs a direction to be a step at all. Without one center, motion is not travel.
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