2 Samuel 5:7 · World English Bible
2 Samuel 5:7 Meaning Nevertheless David Took the Stronghold of Zion
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.
What does 2 Samuel 5:7 mean?
David is the son, the fulfilled self that God raises up within you, the very pattern the New Testament later calls the Christ. Zion is the city of God set inside a person, the settled center of your own being.
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David is the son, the fulfilled self that God raises up within you, the very pattern the New Testament later calls the Christ. Zion is the city of God set inside a person, the settled center of your own being. When David takes the stronghold and it becomes his own city, the son claims the place that was always his, and the drama is happening in you and nowhere in past history.
The stronghold is not stormed from outside; it is entered by a hidden way, the spiral path that climbs from the outer man inward and up. This is your consciousness rising from where it began to where it belongs. The son does not conquer a foreign town. He arrives home. When the fulfilled self rises in you and settles at your center, you have taken the one city that was always meant to be yours.
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Live 2 Samuel 5:7 today
- Instead of putting on a podcast for the commute, ride in silence and settle into the feeling of already being where you are trying to get. Just that, the whole way.
- When a conversation starts measuring who is ahead, let it pass without competing. Stay in the quiet sense that your own place is not in question.
- When pressure builds and you feel scattered, close the laptop for one minute and come back to the steady center of yourself before you answer anything.
What am I trying to reach from the outside that was mine from the start?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The sage travels without leaving home. What is sought is reached by turning inward, not by covering ground.
Upanishads
The city of the heart holds the whole of what you are looking for. All of it is folded into that small space.
Sufism · Attar
The birds crossed the world to find the king and found themselves at the end of the road. The journey went inward the entire time.
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