Monday, September 10, 2012

Daily Meditation: Opportunities to Witness

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Monday September 10, 2012 

 

Opportunities to Witness

 

Jesus teaches us how to live in the present time.  He identifies our present time as the end-time, the time that offers us countless opportunities to testify for Jesus and his Kingdom.   The many disasters in our world, and all the tragedies that happen to people each day, can easily lead us to despair and convince us that we are the sad victims of circumstances.  But Jesus looks at these events in a radically different way.   He calls them opportunities to witness!

 

Jesus reminds us that we do not belong to this world.  We have been sent into the world to be living witnesses of God's unconditional love, calling all people to look beyond the passing structures of our temporary existence to the eternal life promised to us.

 

- Henri J. M. Nouwen  

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Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.
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