Scripture Reading: Luke 23:13-35
Sometime in the afternoon of the day on which Jesus rose, two of His disciples, not apostles, but friends, took a long walk into the country. We are not told why they went to Emmaus. Perhaps they had given up hope. Thus it is too often with Christ’s friends in these days, when trouble comes upon them. The bright dreams fade, they grow disheartened and turn away as if the sacred beliefs they had cherished so long were only delusions. We see here, however, how needless was the discouragement. No hope really had faded. What they thought was cause for sorrow was the secret of the most blessed hope the world ever has known.
As these men walked along the way they talked together of the strange things which had happened. This was natural. Their hearts were full of these things, and they could not but talk about them. If the conversation of Christian people is sometimes vapid and trivial, it must be because their hearts are not filled with the holy themes which ought to occupy them. Is there much truly religious conversation? What did you talk about yesterday, or last evening, in the long walk you took with your friend? This example suggests to us at least the value of good, earnest, wayside conversation. Most of us walk more or less with our friends. Why should two intelligent Christians talk together for an hour or longer and neither of them say one word better than the idlest chitchat about the merest nothings?
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