Micah 6:7 · World English Bible
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Raising the price is how a person avoids discovering that the thing they wanted was never for sale. Underneath every raised offer sits a belief that acceptance has a price and the last bid was too low.
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Raising the price is how a person avoids discovering that the thing they wanted was never for sale.
Underneath every raised offer sits a belief that acceptance has a price and the last bid was too low. That belief sets a state of permanent deficit, deficit drives the next offering, and the offerings climb until the only currency left is a human being.
The need underneath is connection with Yahweh, and connection has never once been purchased. Routed through a transaction it becomes a bid for approval, which has no ceiling, because approval bought yesterday has to be bought again today. Justice and mercy and walking humbly ask more of a man than rams do, since they cannot be delegated to something he owns. The price of the purchasing belief is almost never paid by the one who holds it; it comes out of whoever is standing nearest.
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What am I trying to purchase from someone that was never for sale?
There is no greater poverty than wanting more. The one who knows enough already has it, and no higher bid will produce it.
Craving is a thirst that drinking cannot end. Each thing obtained raises the amount required.
What you are hunting for is not sold anywhere. You cannot buy your way to it, you can only stop running and let yourself be found.
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