Luke 11:11 Meaning Which of You Fathers

The mind is being shown that it has profoundly misjudged its Source. It fears that when it asks for love it will be handed punishment instead, that behind the offer of good lies some hidden cruelty waiting to strike. This is the ego's picture of a father who deceives, and it is entirely a projection of the mind's own guilt onto a Love that has never once wished it harm.

Even a frightened and mistaken mind does not knowingly hand poison to its own child. How much less, then, would perfect Love answer a sincere request with an injury. The gift is always exactly what was asked, given in kindness, and the fear of a trick behind it is only the fear the mind first imagined and then dressed up as God.

Father: the Source of the mind, here contrasted with the ego's suspicion, revealed as wholly trustworthy and incapable of harm. Son: the mind itself as it asks, learning it will be answered with love and not with punishment. Stone: the hard and worthless thing the fearful mind expects in place of nourishment, the imagined betrayal that never comes. Serpent: the hidden harm the mind projects onto its Source, the poison it fears is concealed inside the gift. Bread and Fish: the true nourishment the mind asks for and always receives, the love that answers every sincere request.

A father who loves his child does not answer hunger with a mockery. When the child asks for what will sustain him, the good parent gives exactly that, following the deep structure of care a father carries in his bones.

That bond points upward, toward how a person might trust the order underneath things. If a flawed father will not hand his son a scorpion dressed as an egg, then the ground of being is not out to deceive you. So ask. The world is not merely a trap set to ruin the one who reaches for the good.