Luke 20:13 · World English Bible
Luke 20:13 Meaning The Lord of the Vineyard Said
The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’
What does Luke 20:13 mean?
Love's last appeal is not force but its own likeness, sent so a mind might recognize what it has been refusing all along. Where messengers were met with blows, the beloved comes bearing the very presence the mind was made to know, in the simple hope that seeing it, the mind will remember and welcome it home.
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Love's last appeal is not force but its own likeness, sent so a mind might recognize what it has been refusing all along. Where messengers were met with blows, the beloved comes bearing the very presence the mind was made to know, in the simple hope that seeing it, the mind will remember and welcome it home. This is not a strategy but the nature of love, which answers refusal by offering more of itself.
The reverence hoped for is only recognition, the mind at last seeing in the beloved its own true inheritance. Love gives what is dearest in the trust that a mind cannot forever mistake its own for a stranger.
Beloved son: the presence of love sent in its own likeness, the true self the mind was made to recognize and welcome. Lord of the vineyard: the source that never abandons what it gave, the love that answers every refusal by offering more of itself.
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Live Luke 20:13 today
- Sit for two minutes with the phone face down and let yourself consider that whatever you have been chasing is already here and only needs to be seen.
- Look at one person today, really look, past the role they play in your day. Something in them is worth the kind of regard you usually save for strangers you admire.
- Under pressure, when you feel small and scrambling, remind yourself what you actually are, not the performance. Act from that instead of from the scramble.
What have I been treating as a stranger that is actually my own?
The same truth in other traditions
Sufism · Rumi
The beloved is not far off and never was. What you have been searching the horizon for has been standing where you are, waiting to be recognized.
Hinduism · Chandogya Upanishad
That which is deepest in you is also what is highest. You are not being asked to earn something foreign but to recognize your own.
Zen
An ox-hunt that spans the world ends at home, with the ox that never left the yard. The looking was the only thing missing.
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