Thursday, February 2, 2012

Jesus is inviting Himself into our conversation.

Luke 24:13-32
 Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.15 So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.17 And He said to them, What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?18 Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?19 And He said to them, What things?20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.21 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.22 Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.23 When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.24 And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.25 Then He said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.28 Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.29 But they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And He went in to stay with them.30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.32 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?

Here we see there are two men who are trying to figure out what will happen next after the one they followed, Jesus, has died. We need to remember that many Jews in the time of Jesus were looking for the Messiah, who was going to come and free them from the oppression they were under from the Romans. But, that's not the kind of Savior Jesus was coming to be. 

So these men were sort-of arguing or debating as to what was going to happen next. Then enters Jesus, he gets them to try to explain the way they see it, then teaches them about what is happening and why. Jesus told them that everything was happening just like the prophets of the Old Testament said it would. All these men could see is the one they followed was dead, but God had something so much more in-store and they could not see the big picture.  

God does not want you to argue about what is happening in your life if you miss the whole point about why it is happening. We  need to be looking for where God is in our situations. We realize that when Jesus shows up with these men it was not by accident. He had a purpose to everything he did, and he was trying to show his followers to be looking for the BIGGER PICTURE.

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