John 15:26-27
26 "When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes - the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father - he will confirm everything about me. 27 You, too, from your side must give your confirming evidence, since you are in this with me from the start.”
The Holy Spirit is about power. Power to believe; power to show mercy and kindness; power to live in hope. Power to change and be changed.
Even power to be nonviolent. It is an energizing power.
God gives us his Spirit to be creatively alive, creatively different (sometimes disturbingly so) and creatively compassionate. And even to get in “good trouble.”
This is what is needed in our world today - revolutionary and redemptive activity!
Forging a new humanity in God’s name.
A humanity which erases distinctions between people. which regards none from the human point of view, but Jesus’ point of view where forgiveness is paramount, and all are precious.
“God is the ultimate nonviolent one,
so we dare not accept any theory of
salvation—much less socialization,
economics, or politics—that is based
on violence, exclusion, social pressure,
or moral coercion. When we do, these
are legitimated as a proper way of life.
God saves by loving and including,
not by excluding or punishing.”
Rohr
Prayer thought for the week: “Lord, empower me with your Spirit that I might be creatively compassionate in all…yes all…that I do. And forgive me when I am not, so I can try again.”
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