Luke 3:5 · World English Bible
Luke 3:5 Meaning Every Valley Will Be Filled
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
What does Luke 3:5 mean?
The valley is the mind sunk into unworthiness, convinced it is too low and too lost to be reached, and it shall be filled, for love overlooks no part of what it created. The mountain and hill are the swellings of pride, the raised defenses of a self that thinks itself above correction, and these are brought level, not by punishment but by the gentle dissolving of everything that stood between the mind and its peace.
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The valley is the mind sunk into unworthiness, convinced it is too low and too lost to be reached, and it shall be filled, for love overlooks no part of what it created. The mountain and hill are the swellings of pride, the raised defenses of a self that thinks itself above correction, and these are brought level, not by punishment but by the gentle dissolving of everything that stood between the mind and its peace.
What healing does is not violence to the landscape but the smoothing of a road. Where the ego made the way rough and winding with its judgments, love makes it even and plain, so that a mind exhausted by its own defenses finds nothing left to climb or stumble on, only an open path to what it is.
Valley: the mind sunk low in unworthiness, the deep place of guilt that love overlooks nothing to fill. Mountain: the raised pride of the ego, the swollen defense of a self that thinks itself above correction and is gently brought level. Hill: the smaller vanity of the mind, the lesser height of self-importance laid low along with the mountain.
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Live Luke 3:5 today
- Catch yourself today in whichever direction you lean, either running yourself down or quietly keeping score of how you compare. Let that thought go without arguing with it.
- In a group chat or a meeting, let someone else have the last word on something small. Nothing is lost and the air changes.
- When a comment lands and you feel the instant need to prove yourself, wait. Answer the actual question instead of the imagined attack.
Where am I making the road harder than it needs to be?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 77
The way of nature takes from what is too high and gives to what is too low. It levels without force, and nothing is punished in the leveling.
Buddhism
Neither self-hatred nor self-importance is the ground to stand on. The middle way is level, which is why you can actually walk on it.
Judaism · Hillel
If I am not for myself, who will be. And if I am only for myself, what am I. Both the sinking and the swelling miss the human size of a person.
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