Luke 6:10 · World English Bible
Luke 6:10 Meaning He Looked Around at Them All
He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
What does Luke 6:10 mean?
What was withered had never lost its wholeness; it had only been believed to be less than whole. The mind that draws back its own power, holding it close and unused for fear of what it might cost, sees that part of itself as shrunken and beyond repair.
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What was withered had never lost its wholeness; it had only been believed to be less than whole. The mind that draws back its own power, holding it close and unused for fear of what it might cost, sees that part of itself as shrunken and beyond repair. The one instruction is to extend, to reach out where the ego says reaching is dangerous, and in that willingness the seeming lack is undone.
Nothing was added and nothing repaired in the ordinary sense. A mind that had condemned a part of itself simply looked again and found it as sound as the rest, because it had always been so.
Hand: the mind's power to extend or withhold, the reach of the will that heals when it gives and seems crippled when it clutches. The other hand: the wholeness that was never in question, the standard by which the mind remembers what it truly is.
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Live Luke 6:10 today
- Do the small generous thing you have been talking yourself out of, the message, the transfer, the apology. Send it before the reasoning starts again.
- Offer the help you usually keep back because it might not be wanted or might cost you. Reach anyway, and see what actually happens rather than what you predicted.
- When you feel yourself going tight and self protective in a tense conversation, do one open thing, ask how they are, give the credit, admit the thing. The reach is the healing.
What good am I holding back because giving it feels too risky?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The sage gives and is not depleted. What is held back shrinks, and what is extended somehow returns fuller.
Buddhism · metta practice
Goodwill grows by being sent out. Withheld to keep it safe, it thins; offered freely, it turns out to have been inexhaustible all along.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita
Give what is right to give, at the right time, without calculating a return. Giving that bargains loses its own worth.
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