Numbers 33:55 · World English Bible
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
Half a victory is not a smaller victory, it is a slow defeat that arrives inside the reward. Nothing kept back stays the size it was when it was kept.
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Half a victory is not a smaller victory, it is a slow defeat that arrives inside the reward.
Nothing kept back stays the size it was when it was kept. A tolerated thing has its own aims and works on a person daily; daily friction sets the baseline state, the baseline state sets what someone is capable of feeling inside their own home, and a person can win the territory and still live badly in it.
Eyes and sides are where the damage lands: vision and forward movement, the two capacities a mission runs on. Yahweh is describing arithmetic, not punishment. A person who will not finish the clearing spends the rest of the occupancy managing what one decision would have ended.
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What am I tolerating that is quietly setting the temperature of my whole life?
Pull a weed and leave the root, and it grows back stronger than before.
A small habit you keep excusing will decide your character more surely than any grand intention.
A fire left with one ember is not out, it is only waiting for wind.
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