The Final Week - The Resurrection

My daily read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year passage ended today's reading with the Gospels account of Christ's resurrection and ascension. As I have mentioned in my previous blogs about The Final Week, I have learned so much from this reading. It is always amazing to me that brand new truth emerges from passages that you have read countless times before.

In today's reading, something jumped out at me. I think it may have been because for the past several months I have been desperately seeking the will of God. There have been times in my prayer times where I wished Christ would sit in the love seat across the room from my favorite chair and simply talk with me. While I have sensed God's presence many times in these past weeks, it would be incredible to look in His face and hear His audible voice. There is an account of that right after the resurrection.

Matthew and Luke tell about Cleopas and an unidentified man traveling on the road to Emmaus. Christ joins them in the journey. He asks them what they have been discussing and they tell Him about the events of the past few days. Luke 24:17-19 He asked, "What's this you're discussing so intently as you walk along?" They just stood there, long-faced, like they had lost their best friend. 18 Then one of them, his name was Cleopas, said, "Are you the only one in Jerusalem who hasn't heard what's happened during the last few days?" 19 He said, "What has happened?" (from THE MESSAGE) What a great sense of humor. Here he is the main character of all the events and He's asking "what has happened?" He goes on to say, Luke 24:25-27 "So thick-headed! So slow-hearted! Why can't you simply believe all that the prophets said? 26 Don't you see that these things had to happen, that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into his glory?" 27 Then he started at the beginning, with the Books of Moses, and went on through all the Prophets, pointing out everything in the Scriptures that referred to him. (from THE MESSAGE, emphasis mine) 


What an incredible experience for these two men. Jesus starts at the beginning of the Word, goes all the way through the Prophets, and points out every prophecy that referred to Him. I think any of us would have paid a lot of money to have that kind of class with the Master. So when I pray, and think about Jesus sitting on our love seat, this is the kind of experience I had in mind. Wow.