Luke 18:2 · World English Bible
Luke 18:2 Meaning Saying
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.
What does Luke 18:2 mean?
The city is your own mind, the settled arrangement of thoughts you live among, and the judge set within it is the deciding power of your imagination, the faculty that passes verdicts on what is true for you. This judge fears no God and regards no man because your inner acceptance answers to nothing outside itself.
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The city is your own mind, the settled arrangement of thoughts you live among, and the judge set within it is the deciding power of your imagination, the faculty that passes verdicts on what is true for you. This judge fears no God and regards no man because your inner acceptance answers to nothing outside itself. It is not swayed by opinion, appearance, or the pleading of facts; it rules by what it inwardly grants.
That indifference is the whole strength of the reading. The one who decides within you cannot be argued out of a state once it is assumed and felt as real. No outer authority overrules it, and no man's judgment reaches it. The verdict of your own imagining stands, and your world is shaped to match whatever that inner judge has accepted as so.
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Live Luke 18:2 today
- Decide one thing about yourself today and refuse to put it up for a vote, not in your head, not in a screenshot sent to a friend for a second opinion.
- When someone tells you what you are, in a meeting, at dinner, in a comment, hear it, thank them if it helps, and leave your own verdict untouched.
- Under pressure, when the numbers or the news or the doctor's tone are all saying one thing, let the facts be facts and keep your inner answer anyway. You can hold both at once.
Whose opinion have you been letting sit in the judge's chair?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Epictetus
Nobody can disturb your judgment but you. Opinions, insults, and appearances knock at the door; the one who decides whether to open it lives inside.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
All that you are arises from what you have thought. The mind sets the verdict, and the world comes along afterward to carry it out.
Taoism · Zhuangzi
The sage is not moved by praise or blame because neither one reaches the place where he decides what is so.
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