Embodying Jesus
Embodying Jesus Wednesday of the First Week of Lent – March 4, 2020 Following Jesus does not mean holding the right beliefs or advocating for the proper doctrines. Following Jesus is not a matter of becoming more moral. Following Jesus is not about joining a church or pledging allegiance to a religious institution. To follow Jesus, we go where Jesus goes . . . engage those Jesus engages . . . love as Jesus loves . . . live compassionately as Jesus lived compassionately. In short, following Jesus means that we embody the life and spirit of Jesus in our world. This is no simplistic what-would-Jesus-do, but rather an actual engagement with the world in the spirit of Jesus. With Jesus as our source and center, we allow him to live in and through us. The Apostle Paul called this being “in Christ.” And in Christ, we embody God in the world. In the paragraphs below, Henri Nouwen says we are destined to become like the life of Jesus. We are invited into his life, here and now in ...