| Devotional Hours with the Bible |
Chapter 41 |
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When they sat down together at the table for their evening meal, the Stranger took bread and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. Perhaps it was these familiar acts which revealed Him to them. Or they may have seen the nail mark in the hand that broke the bread. We are not told how, but in some way they came to understand that the Guest at their table was Jesus Himself whom they were mourning as dead, but who was now risen and living. What if our eyes should be opened to see Jesus every time He is beside us, eating with us, walking with us? How radiant would all life then become!
Another suggestion from this Emmaus story is that often it is only as they leave us that we learn the value of our blessings. “Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him; and He vanished out of their sight.” How often it is rue that only in their vanishing do our friends reveal themselves to us:
In this dim world of clouding cares
We rarely know, till ‘wildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.
Somehow our eyes are holden and we do not see the loveliness. Faults seem larger and blemishes greater while our friends are close to us. But as they leave us the faults appear faults no longer, “just odd ways,” and blemishes are transfigured into shining marks. Why wait for the hour of departing to see the beauty and the good?
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