Daily Meditation: Burning With Love

DAILY MEDITATION Burning With Love August 10  Photo courtesy of Jim van Dijk Often we are preoccupied with the question "How can we be witnesses in the Name of Jesus? What are we supposed to say or do to make people accept the love that God offers them?" These questions are expressions more of our fear than of our love. Jesus shows us the way of being witnesses. He was so full of God's love, so connected with God's will, so burning with zeal for God's Kingdom, that he couldn't do other than witness. Wherever he went and whomever he met, a power went out from him that healed everyone who touched him. (See Luke 6:19.) If we want to be witnesses like Jesus, our only concern should be to be as alive with the love of God as Jesus was. For further reflection... If you have material possessions and see another in need but have no pity, how can the love of God be in you? Dear Children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.  This then is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence... - 1 John 3:17-19 (NIV) Your response... What practices help you be "alive with the love of God?" Comment on this Daily Meditation. Continue the Inspiration Purchase your copy of Henri Nouwen's book "A Spirituality of Living".   Visit our Bookstore: United States | Canada | United Kingdom Consider our monthly giving program to sustain the ability to extend Henri's legacy and make his work available to those who seek spiritual formation and nourishment. Click here to sign up today. 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. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo. STAY CONNECTED:

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