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Philippians 2:10 · World English Bible

Philippians 2:10 Meaning That at the Name of Jesus Every

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

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What does Philippians 2:10 mean?

The name of Jesus is not a person you kneel to. It is your own I-am-ness, the awareness of being that is the risen power in you, and every knee bowing to it means every state, high or low, finally yields to the one who knows himself as that power.

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The name of Jesus is not a person you kneel to. It is your own I-am-ness, the awareness of being that is the risen power in you, and every knee bowing to it means every state, high or low, finally yields to the one who knows himself as that power. The three regions are not three places. Heaven, earth and under the earth are the whole range of conditions a person can occupy, from the loftiest to the most buried. All of them come under the awakened I AM.

A knee bowing is a state submitting, losing its hold on you the moment you claim your own being as the single power. Elevated moods and sunken ones alike answer to it. When a person knows he is the very self the scripture names, nothing in his experience stands outside his command.

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Live Philippians 2:10 today

  1. When a mood arrives today, good or sour, name it quietly and remember you are the one watching it arrive. Let it be weather instead of the forecast for your whole day.
  2. If someone's tone lands badly in a text or a group chat, wait before replying. The feeling it stirred up is real, and it still does not get to write your answer.
  3. In the middle of a hard hour, when everything in you says this is who I am now, say back, quietly, this is passing through me. Then do the next small thing anyway.

Which mood have you been letting run the place, as though it were you?

The same truth in other traditions

Hinduism · Upanishads

Know the self and everything else is known. Once you see what you are, the moods and conditions stop running the house.

Buddhism

Thoughts and feelings are weather moving through a sky. The sky is not harmed by the storm and does not take orders from it.

Stoicism · Epictetus

Some things are in your power and some are not. Knowing which is which is how everything else stops having a grip on you.

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