Joshua 17:18 · World English Bible
but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
The ground a person decides cannot be taken is the only ground guaranteed to stay out of their hands. An obstacle becomes a verdict the moment nobody checks it.
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The ground a person decides cannot be taken is the only ground guaranteed to stay out of their hands.
An obstacle becomes a verdict the moment nobody checks it. Iron in enemy hands was counted, weighed, and converted into a feeling of certainty; certainty set the state, and the state produced a request for easier land instead of a plan for that land. An inheritance shrinks to the size of the estimate made about it.
Joshua answers with labor rather than reassurance, because work turns a fence back into a question. A forest tested either falls or teaches; a forest avoided does neither. A tribe that trades its hill country for a complaint about chariots keeps the complaint, and farms the valley while the ridge belongs to whoever swung an axe.
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What have you given a final verdict on without ever checking?
The wall only stands as long as nobody walks up and touches it. One honest step shows you where the door is.
What blocks the road becomes the road. The obstacle is the material the work is made from, not the reason there is no work.
A journey of a thousand miles begins under your feet. Great things are done by starting small on the ground you said was impossible.
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