Numbers 14:9 · World English Bible
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.
The size of an obstacle is a fact; whether it feeds you or finishes you is a verdict. The meaning assigned to an obstacle sets the emotion, the emotion sets the move, and the move decides whether ground gets taken or handed back.
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The size of an obstacle is a fact; whether it feeds you or finishes you is a verdict.
The meaning assigned to an obstacle sets the emotion, the emotion sets the move, and the move decides whether ground gets taken or handed back. Fortified walls read as a death sentence put a person in a state where their own strength shrinks; the same walls read as already abandoned by whatever was protecting them raise appetite.
Two men rested their appraisal on a reference no scouting could supply, that Yahweh was going up with them, and that reference set the state, the state set the counsel, and the counsel was to move. The majority's certainty had never been tested; it was accepted and then obeyed, and obeying it cost a generation the land and buried them in the wilderness they preferred to it.
Self-Help lens
What have I decided about this obstacle, and have I ever actually tested it?
What blocks the road becomes the road. The obstacle does not change size, the use you put it to changes everything.
A journey of a thousand miles begins under your feet. The distance is not crossed by measuring it, only by the next step actually taken.
The fear of the outcome is heavier than the work itself. Act with your attention on the action rather than on the verdict you are dreading.
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