Jeremiah 44:17 · World English Bible
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Whatever a person credits for the good years is what they will run back to when the years turn bad. Assign a stretch of plenty to one cause and the assignment hardens into a belief long before anyone examines it.
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Whatever a person credits for the good years is what they will run back to when the years turn bad.
Assign a stretch of plenty to one cause and the assignment hardens into a belief long before anyone examines it. The belief sets what feels safe, safety sets the emotion under pressure, and that emotion decides where the hands go the hour fear arrives.
A linkage this conscious is still not a conclusion, which is why counter-argument bounces off it. Nobody gets talked out of a full stomach by a better doctrine. Pleasure was tied to the incense and pain to obeying God, and a vow is only that tie spoken. The cost is a household sacrificing to whatever it believes fed it, straight through the famine that follows.
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What am I crediting for my best years that may not deserve it?
People are not moved by events but by what they have decided those events mean. The verdict, not the thing itself, is what runs them.
We cling hardest to whatever we believe once gave us pleasure, and that clinging survives every argument against it.
Whatever lesser thing a person worships out of desire, the reward they get is small and passing. The giving was never coming from the thing they credited.
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