Romans 4:19 · World English Bible
Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
What a person allows to count as evidence decides what they will attempt, long before the facts do. Facts arrive on their own; references are selected, and only the selected ones hold up a feeling of certainty.
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What a person allows to count as evidence decides what they will attempt, long before the facts do.
Facts arrive on their own; references are selected, and only the selected ones hold up a feeling of certainty. A man looked straight at the strongest evidence against the promise and refused to file it as a reference, so it never became a fence he mistook for the horizon. Certainty set his state, the state set what he expected, and what he expected kept him living as a father years before there was a child.
What he kept instead was the word spoken to him, and a promise held that way does the same work evidence does. The person who files every discouraging fact ends up with a certainty nobody ever tested, and it quietly rules out attempts that were never closed to them.
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Which discouraging facts have I promoted into proof that I should stop trying?
He said we are disturbed not by things themselves but by the view we take of them. The facts arrive, the meaning is assigned.
The great path looks like nonsense to those watching the surface. What seems empty is where the real beginning lives.
He said a beginner's mind holds many possibilities, while the expert's mind has already closed most of them. Certainty is often a fence.
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