JIM CAIN
Good Morning!
If you want to bring me down a notch or two, all you need to do is hand me one of those hidden images pictures--the ones where you attempt to locate the objects hidden in the scenery. I can stare at them for hours with little result. When someone finally points out the objects to me, it's embarrassing to see them--right there in plain view!
On the day of Jesus' resurrection, two of His followers walked the road to the village of Emmaus. A stranger approached them, but this stranger was no stranger at all. It was Jesus, raised from the dead. The two disciples, however, didn't recognize Him. I wonder if Luke purposefully included this detail--allowing us to ponder the many ways we see Jesus without ever really seeing Him.
Whatever the reason for their blindness, Jesus explained “from all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Then He gathered them around a table, broke and blessed bread, and offered it to them. In this moment, the pair recognized their Lord! As the scales fell from their eyes, they remembered how their hearts had been aflame when Jesus talked with them on the road. Their eyes were dim, but if they had only paid attention, their hearts would have shown them the truth. Sometimes, our blind eyes need to listen to our fire-lit hearts.
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