Joshua 7:21 · World English Bible
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.
A theft is assembled one look at a time, and by the time the hands move the deciding is already finished. Every hand that steals was trained by an eye, and the training costs nothing while it happens, which is why no one interrupts it.
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A theft is assembled one look at a time, and by the time the hands move the deciding is already finished.
Every hand that steals was trained by an eye, and the training costs nothing while it happens, which is why no one interrupts it. Holding an object in view converts it into worth, worth becomes craving, and craving recruits the body before the will has been consulted.
Buried under a tent floor, silver and gold buy nothing. They cannot be worn, spent, or shown, which means the objects were never the real prize; what was acquired was a secret that then had to be maintained. A man who lets his eyes rest where his hands are forbidden has already begun negotiating, and the cost of that negotiation lands on people who never saw the robe.
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What are you letting your eyes rest on that you have already told yourself is not yours?
Craving is born where attention lingers. Guard the gate of the eye and the hand has nothing to carry out.
An impression arrives and is not yet yours. The whole contest is decided in the half second before you agree with it.
The five colors blind the eye. Keep looking at what glitters and you will lose the ability to be content with what you have.
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