Numbers 27:7 · World English Bible
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Custom is only a record of what nobody has asked for yet, and asking is how it gets tested. A rule nobody has challenged feels, from the inside, exactly like a law of nature.
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Custom is only a record of what nobody has asked for yet, and asking is how it gets tested.
A rule nobody has challenged feels, from the inside, exactly like a law of nature. That feeling of certainty keeps a person from drafting the request, the missing request produces no ruling, and the silence gets filed as further proof that the boundary is real. Fences maintain themselves out of the evidence they prevent from existing.
The request was the experiment, and it only had to run once. What gave way was inherited practice rather than God's justice, and until someone asked, the two were indistinguishable from below. What has never been done looks exactly like what cannot be done, and an attempt is the only thing that separates them. The cost of never making one is a lifetime spent obeying a limit that would have moved at the first honest question.
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What rule have I been obeying that nobody ever actually told me?
Someone too shy to ask will not learn, because the question is the only door into the answer.
A student kept bowing at a closed gate until a teacher walked up and pushed it open. It had never been locked.
Many limits we obey are not in the world at all, they are in our opinion about what is allowed.
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