Joshua 10:25 · World English Bible
Joshua 10:25 Meaning Joshua Said to Them
Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”
What does Joshua 10:25 mean?
Courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to move while afraid, and a leader's task is to make that decision contagious. Joshua sets his men's feet on the necks of defeated kings so their bodies learn what their minds still doubt.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to move while afraid, and a leader's task is to make that decision contagious. Joshua sets his men's feet on the necks of defeated kings so their bodies learn what their minds still doubt. The dread you feel before an adversary shrinks the moment you act against it. Standing frozen only feeds it.
What you confront tends to diminish, and what you flee tends to grow. Command yourself to be strong, take the ground in front of you, and the next enemy looks smaller than the last. Fear promises safety in retreat and delivers paralysis. You conquer by advancing.
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Live Joshua 10:25 today
- Make the call you have been dreading before you have your coffee. The version of it in your head is bigger than the version on the phone.
- Say the thing you have been holding back with someone close, kindly and plainly. Unsaid things grow, said ones shrink to a normal size.
- When the hardest item on the list makes your stomach turn, do that one first. Everything after it looks smaller, and that is not an accident.
What have you been feeding by walking around it?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Seneca
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. The thing dreaded for a week shrinks in the five minutes of actually doing it.
Zen
Meet the tiger and it is only a tiger. The monster lives in the turning away, not in the thing itself.
Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's hands shake and he is told to stand and fight anyway, because the trembling passes in the action and not before it. Courage is a thing you do, not a feeling you wait for.
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