DAILY MEDITATION: "
Baptism: Becoming Children of the Light" for Monday, 25
September 2017
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Jesus offers us baptism as the way to enter into communion with God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and to live our lives as God's beloved children. Through baptism we say no to the world. We declare that we no longer want to remain children of the darkness but want to become children of the light, God's children. We do not want to escape the world, but we want to live in it without belonging to it. That is what baptism enables us to do.
For further reflection...
Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name. (Acts 22: 16 (NIV))
Your response...
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion." (Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging)
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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.
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