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Henri Nouwen Society - Daily Meditation

Friday June 7, 2013 

 

The Power of the Spirit

 

In and through Jesus we come to know God as a powerless God, who becomes dependent on us.  But it is precisely in this powerlessness that God's power reveals itself.  This is not the power that controls, dictates, and commands.  It is the power that heals, reconciles, and unites.  It is the power of the Spirit.  When Jesus appeared people wanted to be close to him and touch him because "power came out of him" (Luke 6:19).

 

It is this power of the divine Spirit that Jesus wants to give us.  The Spirit indeed empowers us and allows us to be healing presences.  When we are filled with that Spirit, we cannot be other than healers.

 

- 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.