Friday, April 28, 2006
Luke 24:32 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?"
BLESSED HEART BURN
It was not simply seeing Jesus again that convinced the Emmaus disciples that their Lord had truly come back from the dead, it was also the Scriptures that He had opened up to them.
The Word of God burned into their hearts the realization of Christ's resurrection. The Word of God made them certain that their eyes had not deceived them. The Word of God caused them to burn with the conviction that there was no more important truth, no greater fact of history, no more wondrous message than Jesus Christ, crucified -- and RISEN, RISEN VICTORIOUS OVER SIN, DEATH AND HELL.
When Jesus opened up to the Emmaus disciples the Scriptures, there they saw a Savior slain -- and risen again. And Jesus has come to us through the same Scriptures. We have had the same glorious experience as those two disciples. The living Christ has opened the Scriptures to you, hasn't He? Hasn't the Word of God burned into your hearts the reality of Christ's resurrection? Hasn't the Word of God made you certain that Jesus poured out His life-blood for you, for your sins, and come back from the grave so that you might be absolutely sure of this -- and of life everlasting?
Well might your heart burn within you! People who are sure their sins are forgiven and their iniquities pardoned, who know their names are written in heaven and that they have peace with God, such peoples' hearts are surely warmed within, fired with new zeal, zeal to seek out others that together they may raise their voices in songs of joyful gratitude and love.
The risen Lord has opened our eyes. We feel, and we know what the unbelieving eye, and ear and heart, never experiences. With Job of old we say and sing: "I know that my Redeemer lives!"
