Luke 9:50 · World English Bible
Luke 9:50 Meaning Jesus Said to Him
Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”
What does Luke 9:50 mean?
The impulse to forbid another who does good in an unfamiliar way is the ego's border-drawing, its insistence that love must belong to my side or be treated as a threat. This is how the mind splinters the one Self into camps, mine and not-mine, and then defends the fence as though salvation depended on it.
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The impulse to forbid another who does good in an unfamiliar way is the ego's border-drawing, its insistence that love must belong to my side or be treated as a threat. This is how the mind splinters the one Self into camps, mine and not-mine, and then defends the fence as though salvation depended on it. But love has no rival and no outsider. Where healing happens, love is happening, whatever name or form it wears.
To stop forbidding is to let the boundary fall. The mind that no longer needs to police who belongs discovers there was never an opposing side, only the one purpose appearing in many hands. What is not against you was never other than you.
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Live Luke 9:50 today
- Read something from a group you usually dismiss, a different politics, a different faith, a different generation, and look for the one true thing in it before you decide anything else.
- When someone solves a problem in a way you would never have chosen, say it worked instead of saying how you would have done it.
- In the group chat where the lines are drawn, resist adding to the pile. Say one fair thing about the people who are not in the room.
Who have you put on the other side of a fence that may not exist?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The way has no favorites and no borders. It feeds what names it and what never heard of it alike.
Sufism · Rumi
There are many lamps and one light. Arguing over which lamp is correct is a strange way to spend an evening.
Hinduism · Ramakrishna
Many paths lead to the same water, and the people who quarrel over the name of God have all tasted the same thing. The quarrel is a sign of not having tasted it deeply.
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