November 18, 2021
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Reading along with us in Luke? Here’s today’s reading:
Luke 24 (NIV)
Jesus Has Risen
1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. .........Continue Reading
I can imagine the confusion and disbelief after what they all had just witnessed to believe the idea that Jesus was alive. While He had told them so many times while He was alive what was going to happen they never really understood and now to witness it all unfold it must have been such an overwhelming feeling!
But such joy to know He was the Savior and He did what He said He was going to do!
The resurrection: without that, there is no Christian faith. Jesus is alive!! And interceding for us today. Love the story of the two apostles Jesus is walking next to them and conversing with them and they’re stuck in their sadness and circumstances. How many times do we do that and Jesus is beside us and abiding in us. Verse 32. The spirit comes alive. !! Were not our hearts burning within us when he was talking to us and opened the scriptures to us
Luke 24
As Mark says above, the resurrection is an essential part of our Christian faith and therefore these accounts of Jesus being seen alive after His death are essential as well. Having never experienced resurrection except through their interaction with Jesus, how easy it would be to question what had happened when the tomb was empty. But how wonderful it was to have those questions set aside when Jesus appeared and they experienced His physical presence, breaking bread and eating fish. It is neat how Jesus is able to show them through the Word, in the Law, the prophets and the Psalms that it was supposed to happen just the way it did. Jesus’ resurrection is also what validates our faith as well, as we understand that Jesus is alive and able to provide all the things we need for our lives as He lives within us as well as reigns on high!
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
Christ spends this time explaining the scriptures to the apostles, but the Father’s promised Holy Spirit is also coming! The expression of “our heart burns within us” makes me think of the point of first believing in Christ, but also, every time God uses His word to convict, teach, and reveal something new to me.