Joshua 3:13 · World English Bible
It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.
Some conditions in a life will not change until a person has already committed to living as though they had. A person who requires the river to move before they will move has built a closed loop: hesitation produces no evidence, no evidence justifies more hesitation, and the promise stays technically true and entirely unused for a lifetime.
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Some conditions in a life will not change until a person has already committed to living as though they had.
A person who requires the river to move before they will move has built a closed loop: hesitation produces no evidence, no evidence justifies more hesitation, and the promise stays technically true and entirely unused for a lifetime.
Yahweh attached the parting to the soles, which puts the whole promise downstream of one movement. The men carrying the ark had no way to feel the word as true until water was at their ankles, and the body learns in that order every time. Waiting for conditions to change costs a person the single act that changes them.
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What am I waiting for permission from, when the only thing that would change it is me moving?
The journey of a thousand miles starts under your foot. Not in the planning of it, under the foot.
The teacher asks how you step forward from the top of a hundred-foot pole. There is no answer you can work out first. You find out by stepping.
It is better to act imperfectly in your own path than to stand still waiting for certainty. Standing still is also a choice, and it produces nothing.
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