Proverbs 25:2 · World English Bible
Proverbs 25:2 Meaning It Is the Glory of God
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
What does Proverbs 25:2 mean?
Love does not force its meaning on a mind that is not ready to look; it waits, hidden not out of secrecy but out of patience, until the willingness to see is there. What seems concealed is only awaiting the seeker, and the dignity of a mind lies in the searching, in choosing to move toward truth rather than demand it whole.
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Love does not force its meaning on a mind that is not ready to look; it waits, hidden not out of secrecy but out of patience, until the willingness to see is there. What seems concealed is only awaiting the seeker, and the dignity of a mind lies in the searching, in choosing to move toward truth rather than demand it whole.
The king here is the mind at its most sovereign, the part that decides to inquire rather than assume. To search out a matter is to look honestly at one's own thoughts, and what is found that way is understood, not merely held. Truth withheld until it is wanted is truth given the moment it can be received.
Kings: the mind at its most sovereign, the deciding part that chooses to seek the truth rather than have it forced upon it.
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Live Proverbs 25:2 today
- Instead of searching for the answer online, sit with one real question of yours for five minutes and write what you actually think. Let the search be yours.
- Ask someone a second question today, the one that goes past the first polite answer, and then stay quiet long enough to hear it.
- When you feel the pull to decide something fast just to be done with it, let yourself say you do not know yet. Looking is not the same as stalling.
What am I demanding be obvious instead of letting myself look for it?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
The teacher gives the student a question, not the answer. What you work out yourself stays with you.
Sufism · Rumi
What you are looking for is looking for you. The hiding is a way of calling, not a way of keeping away.
Tao Te Ching
The deepest things are not loud. They stay quiet until someone cares enough to go looking.
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