Lamentations 4:12 · World English Bible
The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
No power inside the mind believed the defended city of consciousness could be breached, yet the adversary passes straight through the logic switches that were trusted to keep it safe. The governing thoughts, the cultures and appetites that hoard and rule a person, are the last to accept that their walls hold nothing.
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No power inside the mind believed the defended city of consciousness could be breached, yet the adversary passes straight through the logic switches that were trusted to keep it safe. The governing thoughts, the cultures and appetites that hoard and rule a person, are the last to accept that their walls hold nothing. What guards awareness is not a gate of reasoning but the state of attention behind it.
When a person leaves the gates of the mind unguarded, hostile forces enter the seat of consciousness itself. The stronghold falls not from outside assault but because the switches meant to protect it were left open.
Earth: the mind and its whole terrain of thought Jerusalem: the seat of consciousness, the inner city a person defends as home Gates: the logic switches of the brain that admit or refuse a thought Kings of the earth: the governing thoughts and appetites that rule and hoard within a person
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