Jeremiah 2:27 · World English Bible
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Whatever a person turns to when the pressure spikes shows what they linked relief to, not what they believe. Choose a father made of wood and you have linked pleasure to a god who can never make a demand, and pain to the living God who can.
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Whatever a person turns to when the pressure spikes shows what they linked relief to, not what they believe.
Choose a father made of wood and you have linked pleasure to a god who can never make a demand, and pain to the living God who can. The posture follows the link: the back turns because turning away feels like relief.
Then distress pulls the lever hard enough to turn the head, and the cry that goes up asks for the pain gone, not the face restored. Devotion built that way lasts as long as the trouble does. A man who moves only when it hurts spends his life managed by his circumstances and never builds anything that survives the calm.
Self-Help lens
Who do you only turn toward when it hurts, and what would change if you turned toward them on a good day?
Do not wait for calamity to go looking for your principles. Live by them in quiet weather and they will be standing there when the weather turns.
The tree with deep roots is not planted during the storm. What holds in the wind was grown in the long seasons when nothing was threatening it.
Do not say you will study when you have leisure, because the leisure may never come. What you fail to build in the ordinary hours will not be there in the hard ones.
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