Luke 24:32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
For years, I read verse 32 as the disciples trying to pretend that they knew all along that it was Jesus walking with them on the road to Emmaus. But after reading and studying these passages this week, I think this was their attempt to make sense of the fact that they didn’t recognize Jesus until He broke bread with them, then disappeared. “We knew, deep down,” they seem to be saying. “Something in us recognized Him.”
Luke 24:33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together….
It is as though, when Jesus broke the bread, the scales fell from the disciples’ eyes and they could really see. Did Saul’s transformation in Acts come to mind for you? Because that’s exactly what happened for me. Just like Saul turned Paul, these disciples went from ignorance and fear to certainty and belief. Hallelujah! He is risen!
Luke 24:34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.”
Lord, Thank You for allowing us to see You if we but look, hear You if we but listen. Your presence is all around us. Help the scales to fall from our eyes so that we can see Your presence in a thousand little ways each and every day. You are with us always. Hallelujah! Amen.
Luke 24:35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.
Have a blessed day. I love you.