On the Road to Emmaus
One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"
Luke 24:18
Little did Cleopas know that his fellow traveller on the road to Emmaus, the
one to whom he was speaking, was the very subject of the happenings! Was it
because Jesus looked different, or sounded different, that Cleopas and his
friend failed to recognize Him? Or was it that God actually had the power to
raise someone from the dead?
Whatever the case, their eyes were ultimately opened when they all broke
bread together in Emmaus. Through this communion experience, this imparting
of grace, their eyes were suddenly opened to the possibility of a bold
confidence in a power, indeed a life energy, not previously known.
God could raise the dead! Somehow the impossible was now possible. There was
neither no telling , nor no limit, to what God could do in and through those
who might dare to believe. Hence, their hearts "burned' within them with new
life, new hope, and new joy.
Such is the meaning of Easter, the season through which our communing with
the risen Lord affords us the eye opening possibility of deeper, richer,
fuller faith in the God whose power can raise the dead, the God whose power
can bring new life out of situations that tout despair and destruction. For
he lives. And because he lives, we are poised to not only "face tomorrow"
but to face it with new life, new hope, new joy.
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