With Burning Hearts
"Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us"--Luke 24:32 The story of the Road to Emmaus is an important one. It focuses not just on what God's resurrection power does with Jesus, but what God's power for new life does in us. The setting is the afternoon of Easter Day. Two of Jesus' disciples are leaving Jerusalem and heading to Emmaus, about seven miles away. In spite of the news of the empty tomb, they remain traumatized by the awful events of Good Friday and their fear that death has had the last word. They are overcome with sadness, and lament that Jesus is not who they had hoped he would be. The risen Christ meets the men on the road, drawing close and coming alongside of them, but they don't recognize him. "But their eyes were kept from recognizing him, " Luke writes. This is a way of saying that we don't always see Jesus' presence in our lives b...
The first picture is sculpted in my Mommom's church, I find that to me it seems like he is trying to hold and help the whole world but he is only one person so I find that picture/sculpture very interesting.
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I have always been moved by that sculpture. Jesus breaking out of the tomb . . . and out of all the boxes we would put him in to limit our discomfort at how broad and unstoppable his love is!
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My mind goes to what must he have been thinking to himself at this moment? It would be interesting to compile the words that we are all thinking. What might Jesus be feeling as he moved the stone? Is he enjoying the warmth of the sun once again? Now he has to gather all his strength to continue sharing the word of the lord.
What the first image looks like for me is that he is holding a burden to carry like sin
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