Monday, December 14, 2020

Nouwen Meditation: Joy

"Henri Nouwen, Now & Then" Podcast

This week "Now & Then" features Shad - award-winning rapper and host of Netflix's "Hip-Hop Evolution." Inspired by Henri Nouwen's counter-culture call to the 'poverty of mind and heart', Shad talks about his journey to find vulnerability and joy in his music and life.

DAILY MEDITATION | DECEMBER 14, 2020
Joy
Joy does not come from positive predictions about the state of the world. It does not depend on the ups and downs of the circumstances of our lives. Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world. Jesus says it loudly and clearly: “In the world you will have troubles, but rejoice, I have overcome the world.”

The surprise is not that, unexpectedly, things turn out better than expected. No, the real surprise is that God’s light is more real than all the darkness, that God’s truth is more powerful than all human lies, that God’s love is stronger than death.
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

EPHESIANS 1:18, 19 (NIV)
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