Daily Meditation: The Door Open to Anyone

The Door Open to Anyone - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey Jesus is the door to a life in and with God. "I am the gate," he says (John 10:9).  "I am the Way;  I am Truth and Life.   No one can come to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).  Still, many people never have heard or will hear of Jesus.  They are born, live their lives, and die without having been exposed to Jesus and his words.  Are they lost?  Is there no place in the Father's house for them? Jesus opened the door to God's house for all people, also for those who never knew or will know that it was Jesus who opened it.  The Spirit that Jesus sent "blows where it pleases" (John 3:8), and it can lead anyone through the door to God's house. For further reflection... "Listen!  I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me." - Rev. 3: 20 (NRSV) Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community.     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. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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