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Luke 19:38 · World English Bible

Luke 19:38 Meaning Saying

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

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What does Luke 19:38 mean?

When a mind recognizes love approaching, it cannot help but bless what it sees. The crowd names the coming One as King, and in that naming the mind acknowledges an authority it did not invent and does not fear.

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When a mind recognizes love approaching, it cannot help but bless what it sees. The crowd names the coming One as King, and in that naming the mind acknowledges an authority it did not invent and does not fear. Peace in heaven is simply the state of a mind no longer at war with itself, and glory in the highest is what that mind sees everywhere once the eyes of judgment close.

This welcome is the miracle in one gesture, a mind changing teachers and greeting love where a moment ago it might have seen a threat. To bless the One who comes in the name of love is to remember that peace was never far off, only unwelcomed until now.

King: the loving Self the mind finally recognizes and receives as its true authority

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Live Luke 19:38 today

  1. Walk out of your door and let one ordinary thing actually land, the light on a building, the smell of the air, someone's laugh down the street, without reaching for your phone to do something with it.
  2. Greet one person today like you are glad they exist, the barista, your coworker, the person at the next desk. Mean it for the four seconds it takes.
  3. When something arrives that you did not want, a call, a change of plan, a hard conversation, meet it at the door instead of bracing against it. You can always brace later.

What have I been treating as a threat that might just be arriving?

The same truth in other traditions

Sufism · Rumi

The guest who arrives at the door, even the unwelcome one, may have been sent to clear you out for something better. Greet each one at the entrance.

Zen

The mountains were always mountains. What changed was the eyes, and with that one change the whole world became worth bowing to.

Bhagavad Gita

When Arjuna's sight finally opens, he does not find something new. He finds what was in front of him all along, and his first response is awe.

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