Luke 18:7 · World English Bible
Luke 18:7 Meaning Won’t God Avenge His Chosen Ones
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
What does Luke 18:7 mean?
The mind imagines a Love that must be worn down by pleading, that withholds until enough tears are shed, and so it cries as though to a reluctant judge. But this delay is not in Love at all; it is in the mind's own readiness to receive.
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The mind imagines a Love that must be worn down by pleading, that withholds until enough tears are shed, and so it cries as though to a reluctant judge. But this delay is not in Love at all; it is in the mind's own readiness to receive. What seems like a long waiting for rescue is the time the mind takes to lay down its resistance and finally accept what was never being refused.
The crying day and night is the ego's belief that it must earn its answer through persistence, when the answer stood open from the start. What the mind calls patience in God is really its own slow willingness to stop defending against the peace already given.
The elect: the part of the mind that has begun to want only Love, turning toward it steadily even while still believing it must beg.
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Live Luke 18:7 today
- Sit with the thing you have been asking for and ask instead what you would have to stop defending to let it in. Then stay a minute with the answer rather than fixing it.
- When you ask someone for something today, a favor, forgiveness, help at work, ask plainly once and then stop building the case. Give them room to say yes.
- When you are waiting on a reply and the silence starts to feel like a verdict, assume nothing is being withheld from you. Put the phone face down and let the hour pass without the story.
What have I been begging for that may already be sitting open in front of me?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 8
Water does not force its way, and nothing stops it. The delay you feel is your own pushing, not the way's refusal.
Zen
A student asked when he would be given the teaching and was told he had been holding his cup upside down the whole time. Nothing was withheld. Nothing was ready to be received.
Sufism · Rumi
What you are searching for has been searching for you. The long seeking is the time it takes to stop running from being found.
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