He is not Here...He is Risen!!

Do you feel overwhelmed by a situation? Do you need to make a decision? Life appears uncertain and if you knew what tomorrow held you would feel better? The disciples are overwhelmed, uncertain and now sure what tomorrow holds.

Our home fellowship meets every other week We read Luke 24 and discussed different points. To me it is a very powerful passage.

It is the story of the road to Emmaus. Two disciples (not the 12) were walking and discussing what had happened in the recent days and Jesus comes along and joins them. The amazing thing is that they do not recognize Him thinking he was a visitor to Jerusalem. Jesus asks them 'What are you discussing together as you walk along?" Their heads were bowed to the ground feeling very sad, dejected and I am sure at a loss. They tell Him about Jesus of Nazareth and that He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. and that he was sentenced to death, crucified and that their hope was that He would redeem Israel. It had been three days and the women had gone to the tomb with spices and did not find his body. The angels told them He was alive.

Jesus listens and says to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?"

He continues to explain to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. Then He acts as if he is going farther but, they urge him to stay with them.

A powerful thing happens when he joins them at the table. He took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Their eyes were opened and they recognized Him and then He disappears.

Then they remember and say to each other, "Were not our hearts burning with us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"

They found themselves in a difficult situation and had their eyes on the natural, contemplating, reasoning and their circumstance looked hopeless and they did not even recognize the one they had walked with when He came along to join them on the road. They realize that when He spoke to them after sharing bread that they had felt, burned or mused (different translations)within as they walked. This an excellent picture of walking in the flesh and the spirit.

We reason about the things around us and fall into the trap of trying to figure it out. All we have to do is turn our eyes heavenward and He will speak and give direction to those who love and serve Him. Jesus had a lesson for them in that it says they were kept from recognizing Him. We do not know His purpose except that maybe he was teaching them that their thoughts needed to be heaven bound and not earth bound.

Where are YOUR eyes today? Are they on the situation that seems impossible or can you hear the still small voice of your Savior. Ponder your situation and fix your eyes heavenward off the situation and you will find JOY, PEACE AND REST!

HE IS NOT HERE; HE IS RISEN!!! Matt. 28:6a

Blessing on this Glorious Easter Season..