Seeing Jesus on the Resurrection Road

Have you encountered the resurrected Jesus on the resurrection road of life? What does it look like to encounter the risen Lord Jesus on the resurrection road of Easter?

Two disheartened Jesus followers were leaving the city of Jerusalem on the Road to Emmaus after the crucifixion. These two Jesus followers assumed that Jesus had not raised from the dead and they were leaving Jerusalem in a state of confusion, hopelessness, and depression at the death of Christ.

Luke’s gospel account tells us, “That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.” (Luke 24:13-16, ESV).

Jesus rose from the dead just as he had promised. The two people on the road had resurrection life walking the Emmaus Road with them, but they did not encounter resurrection life in their blind depression and despair.

Jesus questioned the two travelers about their sorrow and opened the entirety of the scriptures to them and taught them everything concerning himself, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets.

“‘As they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, but they urged him strongly, saying, ‘Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.’ So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?’” (Luke 24:28-32, ESV).

Like these Emmaus road travelers, when our eyes are opened at the Word of God and at the breaking of the bread at the Eucharist, we encounter the risen Lord Jesus on the Resurrection Road of life and our hearts burn within us. When we open up the Word of God and the sacrament of the Eucharist we experience resurrection life like these Christ followers.

May we see and encounter the resurrected Jesus as we open up the Word of God and as we receive the sacrament of the Eucharist along the resurrection road of life.

A Collect for the Third Sunday of Easter: “Almighty God, you gave your only Son to be for us both a sacrifice for sin and an example of godly living: Give us grace thankfully to receive his inestimable benefits, and daily to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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