Saturday, April 25, 2009

Jesus is real.

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?" ---Luke 24:32
 
Why did Jesus appear to those two guys? Of all the people He could have been hanging with, why these two unknowns? I don't know. But, it might have something to do with the conversation they were having  before He showed up. They were confused about who He was and what had just happened back in Jerusalem.. They were probably heading back to their old life of fishing, carpentry, or whatever. They were sad too. They were beaten men. Their hopes had died on a cross. A stranger shows up and walks with them. Jesus explains the Old Testament writings about how the Messiah must suffer and then rise. He scolds them a little for not getting this. I love the fact that He acts as if He will walk on past their place. They beg this stranger to come in and eat with them, for it is late. He sits down, and after giving thanks, breaks the bread. He is revealed to them in the breaking of the bread. (Sounds like that night in the upper room doesn't it?) After He hands them the bread He vanishes before their eyes. Wow, it's as if He is saying, 'You have me now in the bread, therefore, I am with you always, even till the end. I am now your very sustenance for the journey.'  Jesus is real. His not some idea or myth. He is real, and He is alive. I pray that when we receive Him in the Eucharist, our hearts will burn within us.
 
wkm
 
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