Wednesday 20 Apr 2022

April 20: Luke 24:13-35

Key Verse: Luke 24:25
He said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Devotion:
Just like Mary did not recognise Jesus when she came out of the empty tomb, so too these two did not recognise Jesus. This is one of those things where we cannot bring ourselves to believe what we are looking at because we cannot conceive it as being possible, so we make up something else in our minds which we can believe. Mary assumed the role of a gardener on Jesus, whilst these two assumed the role of someone who had not heard anything which had happened over the past three days!

Jesus did not berate them for not recognising Him, but He did remind them of everything the prophets of old had said would happen when the Messiah came on the scene. He reminded them of the parallels with what He had been through and how this was all as it should have happened… Still they did not conceive it as possible so they continued to make up things in their own minds instead!

It was only when Jesus broke bread with them to have a meal they finally recognised Him for who He was! Sometimes it does take something physical to remind us of what Jesus is all about and to remind us He is with us all the time – even when we cannot think of it as possible because we are going through so much!

Christ wants us to know He is going to be with us all the time. Just as He promised the Holy Spirit would be in us, He promised us He would never leave us or forsake us. This is a promise and not just something He said idly whilst doing other things!  God’s promises given to us from the beginning of time still hold true and we should expect all of them to come to pass!

Points to Ponder:
Do you struggle when things get uncomfortable in life?

Will you hand those things over to Christ and trust Him?