Luke 5:34 · World English Bible
Luke 5:34 Meaning He Said to Them
He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
What does Luke 5:34 mean?
Religiousness has been made into a long face. Sadness can be practiced: scheduled, counted, displayed to others as achievement.
From the Indian Guru reading below.
Luke 5:34 through 1 lens
The same verse, read by one tradition.
Indian Guru
AWARENESS
Indian Guru
Religiousness has been made into a long face. Sadness can be practiced: scheduled, counted, displayed to others as achievement. Celebration cannot be practiced at all, and that is why it frightens the pious.
While the bridegroom is present, denial makes no sense. The disciplines were preparations for something that has now arrived at the table, and a man who goes on rehearsing his hunger in front of the feast is worshipping his own method. Fasting will have its hours, and they belong to absence, not to a guest already sitting beside him.
Indian Guru lensGo deeper in the app
Indian Guru lens
Live Luke 5:34 today
- When something good happens today, let yourself enjoy it fully instead of immediately checking what still needs doing. The enjoying is not a break from your real life.
- At dinner or on a call with someone you love, put the phone in another room and be openly glad to be there. Say it out loud, even if it feels like a lot.
- In a week that feels too heavy for happiness, take the small good thing anyway: good coffee, a song in the car, ten minutes of sun. Hardship does not require you to refuse it.
Am I turning down something good right now because I think I have not earned it yet?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
The one who has found the way eats when hungry and laughs when glad, with no performance in it. Solemn faces are usually a method, not a state.
Judaism · Hasidic teaching
Serve with joy, because gloom is not humility, it is a kind of pride in your own seriousness. Where there is gladness, you were already in the right place.
Sufism · Rumi
There is a feast going on and most people are outside explaining why they cannot come in. The door was open the whole time.
Free · No account needed
Read all of Luke 5 through 17 lenses
Lensightful opens every verse of the Bible through the traditions you choose. Save readings, ask a follow-up question, and get one verse a day.
Get Lensightful on the App Store