Luke 8:27 · World English Bible
Luke 8:27 Meaning When Jesus Stepped Ashore
When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.
What does Luke 8:27 mean?
When something inside a person splits off and takes on a life of its own, it can grow strong enough to run him. The old word for this was possession, and the word fits, because it really does feel as if another will has moved in and taken the controls.
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When something inside a person splits off and takes on a life of its own, it can grow strong enough to run him. The old word for this was possession, and the word fits, because it really does feel as if another will has moved in and taken the controls.
Such a man is driven out of ordinary life. He can no longer keep the small daily habits that hold people together, so he ends up outside the town, without clothes, living among the graves. The clothes and the house stand for the everyday self he can no longer wear. What has seized him belongs to the dark, so he lives with the dead, ruled by a force he never chose.
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Live Luke 8:27 today
- Name the habit that is currently running you, the scrolling, the drinking, the silence you go into. Say it out loud once, in plain words, without softening it.
- If someone you love has dropped out of ordinary life, the group chat, the family dinner, the normal clothes and hours, reach for them today without a lecture. Just a message that says you are still here.
- When you find yourself doing the thing you swore off, do one ordinary human act right after: shower, eat a real meal, step outside. The small daily things are the clothes that hold a life together.
What in my life is making the decisions that I keep telling myself I am making?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · the Dhammapada
The mind is hard to check, swift, flitting wherever it pleases. Untamed, it does not serve the person, it runs him.
Sufism · al-Ghazali
The appetites, left unquestioned, become the masters and the man becomes the servant. Freedom begins the moment he sees whose voice he has been obeying.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita 6
The mind is a friend to the one who has faced it and an enemy to the one who has not. Unfaced, it drives; faced, it carries.
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