Joshua 3:15 · World English Bible
and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
Whatever a person insists on seeing before they move is usually the exact thing only their movement could produce. Certainty demanded up front sets a cautious state, caution keeps the feet out of the water, and the water stays exactly where it was, proof for one more year that crossing was impossible.
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Whatever a person insists on seeing before they move is usually the exact thing only their movement could produce.
Certainty demanded up front sets a cautious state, caution keeps the feet out of the water, and the water stays exactly where it was, proof for one more year that crossing was impossible. Flood and harvest arrive in the same season, so whoever waits for the level to drop waits out the only window they had.
The ark moves at the speed of the men carrying it; God's presence does not clear the water before the soles commit. Which sets the order: the option of standing still gets cut off first, and dry ground second. Dry feet keep a person safe on a bank they will never leave.
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What proof am I waiting for, that only my own first step could ever give me?
To study the way is to practice it. You do not understand first and then sit, you sit and the understanding comes with wet feet.
A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath the foot. The step is not the result of the understanding, it is where the understanding starts.
He wrote that while we wait for life we let it pass. The season you are holding out for is the one you are spending on the bank.
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