NOTE: Thank you for visiting my Blog. Currently I am writing daily devotionals as together with my church I am reading through the New Testament. This series began in April 2011 and will conclude this April. Tomorrow we will finish the Gospel of Luke and on Friday we will begin the letter to the Hebrews.
Luke brings us a picture of the Christian life in his story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Cleopas and his wife Mary (if this is the same Cleopas mentioned in John 19:25) had despaired over the political, economic and spiritual conditions in Israel. They had encounter Jesus and had hoped that he would be the one to set them free. Then that hope was destroyed by the death and burial of Jesus. They had not been able to grasp that Jesus was the fulfillment of their hope because they had been looking at the scriptures with too narrow of a focus. As Jesus comes along side of them he gives them a new perspective. Jesus’ revelation to them of God’s ultimate plan of redemption for all people, everywhere, prepared them to experience the presence of Jesus, anew, as Jesus broke bread with them.
The first meal recorded in the Bible is when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Through their act of disobedience sin and death entered the world. Here, in the first meal recorded after Jesus’ resurrection, Jesus, the victor over sin and death, is revealed.
Luke reveals the core of the Christian life as the study of the scriptures, with Jesus as our guide, and with a celebration of His presence with us in the sacrament of Holy Communion.
In our devotional life, in our study of the scriptures, a good place to begin is:
O God, open our hearts and minds and souls to hear your word as if for the first time. Help us experience anew the surprise and joy that your presence in the word can bring us. Amen
What word or phrase in these verses
attracts your attention?
Reflect on that word or phrase.
What insights come to you?
How does this passage touch your life today?
16-Feb-12 Luke 24:36-53
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