Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The Daily Meditation: "Growing Into Our True Freedom" The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for Tuesday, 17 April 2018.

The Daily Meditation: "Growing Into Our True Freedom" The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for Tuesday, 17 April 2018.
DAILY MEDITATION: "Growing Into Our True Freedom" for Tuesday, 17 April 2018
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True freedom is the freedom of the children of God. To reach that freedom requires a lifelong discipline since so much in our world militates against it. The political, economic, social, and even religious powers surrounding us all want to keep us in bondage so that we will obey their commands and be dependent on their rewards.
But the spiritual truth that leads to freedom is the truth that we belong not to the world but to God, whose beloved children we are. By living lives in which we keep returning to that truth in word and deed, we will gradually grow into our true freedom.

For further reflection...
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." (2 Corinthians 3: 17 (NRSV))
Your response...
How does the truth that you belong to a loving God impart freedom to you?
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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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