Thursday, September 25, 2014
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?"
ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN ... ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES
It was not just seeing Jesus again that convinced the Emmaus disciples that their Lord had truly come back from death and the grave -- first it was the Scriptures that He 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 AGAIN -- 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.
Has the living Christ opened the Scriptures to you? Has the Word of God has burned into your heart the realization of Christ’s resurrection? Has the Word of God made you certain that Jesus sacrificed His life-blood for you, for your sins, and that He came back from the grave so that you might be absolutely confident of forgiveness and of life everlasting?
Then most surely your heart burns within you! Anyone who is sure of sin forgiven and iniquity pardoned, anyone who knows their name is written in heaven for their peace is made with God, that person's heart is surely warmed within, fired with new zeal, zeal to seek out others that together they may raise their voices in psalms and hymns of joyful gratitude and love to God.
"Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34).
