Thursday, April 14, 2022

Nouwen Meditation: Everything Good Comes from God

Now & Then Podcast
REPLAY OF A POPULAR PODCAST: This episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, features best-selling author and speaker Joyce Rupp. Considered one of the best Christian guides writing today, Joyce fearlessly addresses the reality of life’s losses and sorrows.

DAILY MEDITATION | APRIL 14, 2022
Everything Good Comes from God
Trusting in the unconditional love of God: that is the way to which Jesus calls us. The more firmly you grasp this, the more readily will you be able to perceive why there is so much suspicion, jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, hatred, violence, and discord in our world. Jesus himself interprets this by comparing God’s love to the light. He says:

Though the light has come into the world people have preferred darkness to light because their deeds were evil. And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being shown up; but whoever does the truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as done in God.

Jesus sees the evil in this world as a lack of trust in God’s love. He makes us see that we persistently fall back on ourselves, rely more on ourselves than on God, and are inclined more to love of self than love of God. So we remain in darkness. If we walk in the light, then we are enabled to acknowledge that everything good, beautiful, and true comes from God and is offered to us in love.
“But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love...”

PSALM 33:18 (NIV)
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