Psalms 40:7 · World English Bible
Psalms 40:7 Meaning Then I Said
Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
What does Psalms 40:7 mean?
The life a person is living was written before he arrived to live it. Fate from outside did not pen it.
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The life a person is living was written before he arrived to live it. Fate from outside did not pen it. The states he has entered and dwelt in wrote it, each one leaving its script. The book is consciousness itself, and every page was set down by an assumption held long enough to feel natural.
So the coming into a scene is really the stepping into a state already prepared. A man walks into the day his inner life has authored for him. When the writing changes, the day rewrites itself, because the outer events only read back what was inscribed within. What a person becomes on the inside is the volume his world faithfully performs.
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Live Psalms 40:7 today
- Before you open your phone tomorrow, say in one plain sentence who you are today, then let the day read from that page instead of letting the notifications write it for you.
- When a family member or friend plays back an old story about who you have always been, do not fight it, just do not read from it. Answer as the newer version and let them meet that one.
- In the pressure of a deadline, when you hear yourself saying "this always happens to me," change the line on the spot. You are not reporting your life, you are writing the next page of it.
If your day is only reading back what you wrote, what did you put on today's page?
The same truth in other traditions
Dhammapada
The deeds a person does follow them like a shadow that never leaves. The life ahead is already being written by the mind at work right now.
Stoicism · Epictetus
He taught that we are not disturbed by events but by the accounts we give of them. The story we hold is what we end up living in.
Upanishads
As a person acts and as they hold themselves to be, so they become. The becoming is not imposed, it is authored.
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