John 13:20 · World English Bible
John 13:20 Meaning Most Certainly I Tell You
Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.
What does John 13:20 mean?
To welcome a brother is to welcome the same innocence that lives in the one who sends him, for the mind that opens to one opens to all. There is no separate reception; whoever is received carries the whole, because love does not divide itself into parts that could be accepted singly.
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Manifestation
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Christian Psychology
To welcome a brother is to welcome the same innocence that lives in the one who sends him, for the mind that opens to one opens to all. There is no separate reception; whoever is received carries the whole, because love does not divide itself into parts that could be accepted singly.
So the mind that greets its brother without judgment finds it has greeted the teacher of love, and through that teacher the very Source from which love comes. What seems like three encounters is one, a single act of welcome that reaches unbroken from the brother in front of you all the way back to God.
He that is sent: the brother who arrives to be met, the messenger carrying the same innocence as the one who sends him
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MANIFESTATION
Manifestation
One awareness of being wears every office in you. The one who is sent, the one received, and the one who does the sending are the same power moving through three roles, and to welcome any of them is to welcome the whole. When a state comes to you as a wish, an image, a fresh idea of who you are, that arrival is the sender's own messenger. Turn it away and you turn away the very self that would give it.
What comes to make the secret known is not an intruder but the revealer. Accept the state offered and you have accepted the awareness that offered it, and behind that awareness stands the I AM, your own being, which sent it. The one who takes in the new self takes in the power that gives all selves. Whatever you let in, you are letting in yourself.
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Live John 13:20 today
- When the next person interrupts your day, drop what you are holding and actually look at them for a second before you answer. Treat the interruption as the appointment.
- Let someone finish their whole sentence today, phone face down, without already drafting your reply. Just that.
- In the meeting with the person you already disagree with, listen for the one thing they are right about and say it out loud before you say anything else.
If the next person through my door were carrying something for me, would I be paying enough attention to receive it?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Upanishads
The same self looks out of every face. To receive the guest is to receive what you have been seeking all along.
Sufism · Rumi
Treat whoever arrives today as a guest sent to you, even the unwelcome one. Something is being delivered through them.
Zen
How you greet the person at the door is how you greet everything. There is no separate, more important meeting waiting later.
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