Luke 24 -- Do You Remember What He Told You?

“Do you remember what He told you?” the angel at the tomb said to the women looking for Jesus’ body.  Don’t you just imagine it was embarrassing to have to say, “No….”

 

The women told all this to the disciples, but they didn’t remember it.  The two followers on their way to Emmaus, walking beside Jesus, who’d hidden His identity from them, told them, “You are foolish and slow to believe everything the prophets said.”  They were allowed to recognize Him as He broke bread at supper, and He vanished.

 

They went to tell the disciples, and as they related these events, Jesus stood right in the middle of them suddenly.

 

They’d spend 3 years with Him, and He’d told them several times that all this would happen, yet they hadn’t even remembered, and you’d think they’d have set up a vigil at His tomb to see the blessed event!

 

“Then Jesus opened their minds, so they could understand the Scriptures.”  I know that’s what happened to me.  They’d been believers but hadn’t really understood.  It was the same with me.  But in His mercy and grace, Jesus opened my mind to help me understand what was written about Him in the scriptures.  And what a difference it makes!

 

Believers can be spiritually blinded – even the best of them – His disciples.

 

Father, open the minds of all believers who haven’t yet understood.  Help them to see what they haven’t yet discovered about You.  Show me even more, Father, and help me to tell others about it.

 

 

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford