Jeremiah 42:16 · World English Bible
then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.
A future you hold as settled starts giving orders, and fear's orders deliver a person straight to the thing itself. Whatever outcome a person treats as certain begins issuing instructions: which road, whose counsel to discount, what gets called safety.
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A future you hold as settled starts giving orders, and fear's orders deliver a person straight to the thing itself.
Whatever outcome a person treats as certain begins issuing instructions: which road, whose counsel to discount, what gets called safety. Sword and famine were already installed as the sure thing, and that certainty organized every decision underneath it, including the one that looked like escape.
God offered the same faculty a different object and asked them to be that sure of a promise instead of a blade. They kept the aim and changed only the address. What that costs is every ounce of planning and nerve a person has, spent on transport toward the feared thing rather than away from it.
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What have I decided is certain, and where is that certainty quietly taking me?
We suffer more in imagination than in reality, and then we rearrange our whole life around the imagined thing.
The mind runs ahead and builds the world it then has to live in. Guard what it treats as certain.
Running hard from something is still letting it set your course. The one who stays still is harder to steer.
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