Acts 10:19 · World English Bible
Acts 10:19 Meaning While Peter Was Pondering the Vision
While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
What does Acts 10:19 mean?
A picture rises from somewhere deeper than his own thinking, and he turns it over, not yet sure what it means. The mind works this way: it offers up images before they can be explained.
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A picture rises from somewhere deeper than his own thinking, and he turns it over, not yet sure what it means. The mind works this way: it offers up images before they can be explained.
While he is still puzzling over it, a voice says three men are at the door. The inner image and the outer visitors arrive together, and this is no accident. The vision had already begun loosening his old rule about who counts as clean, so that when the strangers knocked, he was ready to welcome people he once would have turned away.
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Live Acts 10:19 today
- When something keeps coming back to mind today for no clear reason, give it five quiet minutes instead of swatting it away. Your mind often works out an answer before it can explain it.
- Say yes to the small interruption, the call you did not expect, the neighbor on the step, the coworker standing in your doorway. The thing you did not plan for is often what the day was actually for.
- When you catch yourself deciding about someone before they have finished speaking, back the judgment up a step and let them finish. The rule you have been using may be older than you are.
What have you been turning over quietly that the day may be about to answer?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
The mind of the ready person works like a mirror: it meets whatever arrives, answers it, and does not hoard it.
Sufism · Rumi
Every visitor to the house, the grief, the surprise, the stranger at the door, may have been sent to clear you out for something better. Meet each one at the entrance.
Zen · Mumonkan 19
Asked what the way is, the master said: your everyday mind. Readiness shows up in the ordinary moment, not in a special one.
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