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Henri Nouwen Society - Daily Meditation

Thursday August 1, 2013 

 

All People Lifted Up with Jesus

 

The death and resurrection of Jesus are God's way to open for all people the door to eternal life.  Jesus said:  "When I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all people to myself" (John 12:32). Indeed, all people, from all times and places, are lifted up with Jesus on the cross and into the new life of the resurrection.  Thus, Jesus' death is a death for all humanity, and Jesus' resurrection is a resurrection for all humanity.

 

Not one person from the past, present, or future is excluded from the great passage of Jesus from slavery to freedom, from the land of captivity to the promised land, from death to eternal life.

 

- Henri J. M. Nouwen  

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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. Photo by V. Dobson.