Nehemiah 7:65 · World English Bible
Nehemiah 7:65 Meaning The Governor Told That They Should Not
The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.
What does Nehemiah 7:65 mean?
The holy food is withheld behind a demand for divining tools, and that demand is the corruption, not the cure. Urim and Thummim were dice the priest cast to tell fortunes, a sorcery dressed as sacred office, and here the most holy things are barred until such a diviner stands up.
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The holy food is withheld behind a demand for divining tools, and that demand is the corruption, not the cure. Urim and Thummim were dice the priest cast to tell fortunes, a sorcery dressed as sacred office, and here the most holy things are barred until such a diviner stands up. The awakened person outgrows this: the true nourishment within is fenced off so long as a person still waits on omens and casts lots for direction instead of feeding directly on what is holy.
What keeps the inner food out of reach is the habit of consulting the dice. The gate stays shut, the holy thing untasted, until that reliance on divination is set down.
Urim and Thummim: the dice cast by the priest for divination, the sorcery of reading omens that the awakened person must outgrow Most holy things: the inner nourishment of spirit, fenced off from a person still ruled by fortune-telling
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Live Nehemiah 7:65 today
- When you catch yourself refreshing something for a sign, the horoscope app, the one more search, the reading of a text message for hidden meaning, close it and ask yourself what you already know. Usually you know.
- With one person today, resist asking "what do you think I should do" when you are really asking them to decide for you. Say instead what you are leaning toward and see if it holds up in the open air.
- Under pressure, when the choice has to be made and the information is not coming, make it anyway from what is in front of you. The waiting was never going to produce certainty, only delay.
What good thing have I been keeping just out of reach until I get a sign?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 47
Without going out the door you can know what matters, and the one who keeps running outside to look learns less, not more. The knowing you need is not out there waiting to be read off a sign.
Zen
A student kept asking the master for a sign before he would sit. The master said the sitting is the sign, and you have been postponing your own breakfast.
Stoicism · Epictetus
We run to fortune-tellers about things that are not ours to control, when the one thing that is ours, how we meet it, needs no prediction at all.
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