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imagining Christ

 


Today’s devotion is from one of my favorite authors, Henri Nouwen, and the devotion email from yesterday.  It reenforces much of what we have been sharing about prayer at our church.


Read on.  Check out more from Nouwen at https://henrinouwen.org/meditation/


Imagining Christ


Contemplative prayer can be described as an imagining of God’s Son, Jesus, a letting him enter fully into our consciousness so that he becomes the icon always present in the inner room of our hearts.  By gazing at Jesus, walking on the earth, we give him loving attention and we “see” with our minds and hearts how he is the way to the Father.  Jesus’ life and work is an uninterrupted union with and contemplation of his Father.  We, as followers of Jesus, try to enter into the same disposition.  We welcome the discipline of contemplation, taking time regularly to enter into the life of Jesus to contemplate the incredible bond between Jesus and the Father.  And we trust that in, through, and with Jesus, we, too, may live and bask in God’s unconditional love.


PSALM 27:4 (NIV) 

One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.


NOTE: join The Community Fellowship family and friends this Sunday (May 19) for worship at 10:10am taking place for the first time at our new campus.  We will be back in Collinsville the following Sunday.  Bring a chair with you.  Share with others.  There will be a work day on Saturday at 9am.

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