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Luke 6:25
The blessing is first given in Luke 6:21 (NKJV) stating, “Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh.” This blessing is now contrasted with Luke 6:25 stating, “Woe to you who are full, For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, For you shall mourn and weep.”
As in Luke 6:24, this teaching is focused on those who consider themselves “full” of life and “laugh” as in boasting in pride and arrogance. We must look at this from the spiritual perspective; those who are “full” of worldly things and attitudes will find themselves lacking spiritually when they stand before the Almighty God. They will find themselves in hunger and mourning when they become aware of their need for Christ Jesus.
This is a promise that those who put their trust in worldly things will find themselves lacking in a spiritual relationship with Jesus that is most important to everlasting life in heaven.
Matthew 22:37-40 states, “Jesus said to him, “’You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind’ [Deuteronomy 6:5]. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ [Leviticus 19:18]. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”” Jesus states in John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” The words of Jesus in Luke 6:25 are the warning to those who choose to not follow the above commandments.
Dear Lord,
Please help us to see that being full of ourselves and laughing in arrogant pride at others is not the way of being a Christian. Please help us to put on a new life in Christ Jesus and portray the fruit of the spirit which lives in us now through Your Holy Spirit. Please help us to live by the words of the Apostle Paul as he states in Galatians 5:22-26, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” In Jesus name I pray, amen.