| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 3: 8 And he said: 'Which way shall we go up?' And he answered: 'The way of the wilderness of Edom.'
2_Kings 3: 9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey; and there was no water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them.
2_Kings 3: 10 And the king of Israel said: 'Alas! for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.'
2_Kings 3: 11 But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?' And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said: 'Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.'
2_Kings 3: 12 And Jehoshaphat said: 'The word of the LORD is with him.' So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2_Kings 3: 13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel: 'What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother.' And the king of Israel said unto him: 'Nay; for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.'
2_Kings 3: 14 And Elisha said: 'As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: of at breakfast; but the reasons they didn't talk of at breakfast
always came out in the end. The Dorringtons on the other hand came
out very little; or else when they did they stayed - as was natural
- for hours, during which periods Mrs. Moreen and the girls
sometimes called at their hotel (to see if they had returned) as
many as three times running. The gondola was for the ladies, as in
Venice too there were "days," which Mrs. Moreen knew in their order
an hour after she arrived. She immediately took one herself, to
which the Dorringtons never came, though on a certain occasion when
Pemberton and his pupil were together at St. Mark's - where, taking
the best walks they had ever had and haunting a hundred churches,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: abide and daily grow therein, and that it may gain approbation and
adherence among other people and proceed with power throughout the
world, that many may find entrance into the Kingdom of Grace, be made
partakers of redemption, being led thereto by the Holy Ghost, in order
that thus we may all together remain forever in the one kingdom now
begun.
For the coming of God's Kingdom to us occurs in two ways; first, here
in time through the Word and faith; and secondly, in eternity forever
through revelation. Now we pray for both these things, that it may come
to those who are not yet in it, and, by daily increase, to us who have
received the same, and hereafter in eternal life. All this is nothing
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