Several People Saw Me

Meditations based on readings from

The Story of My Life As Told by Jesus Christ

February 28, 2020

Several People Saw Me

Page 321-322

Matthew 28:16; Mark 16:12-13, 14b;

Luke 24:13-43; John 20:19-25

The story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus is a picture of the normal Christian life. Cleopas and his wife Mary, who was one of the women at the foot of Jesus’ cross, had despaired over the political, economic and spiritual conditions in Israel. They had encountered 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 a focus. On the road to Emmaus, as Jesus comes alongside 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.

When Jesus appeared to his disciples on the evening of the first day of the week, he gave them the responsibility for taking his message of God’s New Creation to the entire world. When Jesus breathes on them, it invokes memories of Genesis 2:7 where God “breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.” Now the disciples have received New Life in Christ.

My Takeaway: Cleopas and Mary’s experience with Jesus reveal the core of our Christian life. We are to study the scriptures, with Jesus as our guide, and celebrate his presence with us in the sacrament of Holy Communion.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

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• Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

• The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

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