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Psalms 64:7 · World English Bible

Psalms 64:7 Meaning But God Will Shoot at Them

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

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What does Psalms 64:7 mean?

The arrow rises from the archer's bow, and in the zodiac hidden through Scripture that archer is Sagittarius, the fiery aim of the higher mind lifting a person from lower nature to higher. Its point is set against Scorpio, the sting of lust and the lower thoughts that scheme in secret.

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The arrow rises from the archer's bow, and in the zodiac hidden through Scripture that archer is Sagittarius, the fiery aim of the higher mind lifting a person from lower nature to higher. Its point is set against Scorpio, the sting of lust and the lower thoughts that scheme in secret. When the divine mind draws and looses, the proud plotting of the flesh is struck through in a single instant, undone where it hid.

The wounding falls on "them," the negative movements a person harbors, and it is sudden because higher awareness does not argue with the lower mind by degrees. It ends it. The rising force within a person overturns the crafty thoughts of the flesh the way an arrow reaches its mark before the target can move.

Arrow: the upward aim of the divine mind, Sagittarius transforming a person from the lower nature to the higher Them: the plotting thoughts of the lower mind, Scorpio's sting of lust and flesh

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Live Psalms 64:7 today

  1. Catch one scheming thought today, the small resentful plan you keep rehearsing, and just see it for what it is. No argument, no self scolding. Seeing it is enough.
  2. When you are tempted to say something cutting to someone, let the clear thought arrive first: this will not help. Then let it go unsaid.
  3. Under pressure, when the urge to retaliate shows up in an email reply, close the draft. One clean look at the urge usually ends it faster than a long debate with yourself.

What have I been negotiating with for months that one honest look could end today?

The same truth in other traditions

Zen

Insight does not arrive by degrees. A person argues with themselves for years, then one clear seeing ends the argument in a breath.

Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge is the fire that burns the tangle of confusion at once. What reasoning could not untie, a single clear sight consumes.

Buddhism

The moment you see the craving clearly as craving, its grip loosens. Light does not debate with the dark; it simply enters.

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