The visit - A call to holiness
Some of you Germans might now Adrian Plasses book "The visit" which now is available as DVD. Get you hands on it - it's worth it!
This movie opened my heart anew to Jesus' way of meeting and touching individuals. Jesus absolutely unlike us doesn't overlook someone who is hurt, lonely and in need of help. And he takes time to meet him.
Jesus also doesn't flee from situations that go deep, he doesn't make unnecessary words, doesn't fall into embarassment but uses the tension we normally flee from to heal and set free from what enslaves us.
All of this lead me to one simple prayer: "I want to be more like you, Jesus!" - Which is nothing but a prayer for holiness, holiness stripped down to what it really is.
All I seriously don't want to be like is what was picture in the movie in the figure of Peter - held captive in outward rules and forms that so often seem so normal in our church life. But, I'm afraid that sometimes I'm pretty close to being directed more by these rules than by Jesus' example. Unless he's the only one I look up to.
This movie opened my heart anew to Jesus' way of meeting and touching individuals. Jesus absolutely unlike us doesn't overlook someone who is hurt, lonely and in need of help. And he takes time to meet him.
Jesus also doesn't flee from situations that go deep, he doesn't make unnecessary words, doesn't fall into embarassment but uses the tension we normally flee from to heal and set free from what enslaves us.
All of this lead me to one simple prayer: "I want to be more like you, Jesus!" - Which is nothing but a prayer for holiness, holiness stripped down to what it really is.
All I seriously don't want to be like is what was picture in the movie in the figure of Peter - held captive in outward rules and forms that so often seem so normal in our church life. But, I'm afraid that sometimes I'm pretty close to being directed more by these rules than by Jesus' example. Unless he's the only one I look up to.
posted by armed and dangerous at 11:43 AM
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