Daily Meditation: Jesus Comes to Us in the Poor

Jesus Comes to Us in the Poor - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey What finally counts is not whether we know Jesus and his words but whether we live our lives in the Spirit of Jesus.  The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of Love.  Jesus himself makes this clear when he speaks about the last judgment.  There people will ask:  "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?" and Jesus will answer:  "In so far as you did this to one of the least ... of mine, you did it to me"  (Matthew 25:37, 40). This is our great challenge and consolation.  Jesus comes to us in the poor, the sick, the dying, the prisoners, the lonely, the disabled, the rejected.  There we meet him, and there the door to God's house is opened for us. For further reflection... "Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches." - Revelation 3: 22 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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