Mon.’s Devo - Jesus Last Words

Read Luke 24:33-53 The two men who walked with Jesus to Emmaus and saw him disappear before their very eyes, got right back on that same road and probably ran back to Jerusalem. They found the disciples and told them what had happened to them. When they got to the part where Jesus broke the bread and disappeared, Jesus appeared in the room. He asked them why they were troubled and why they had thoughts arising in their hearts. (I thought that thoughts came from our heads, but these came from their fearful hearts.) He told them to look at his hands and feet and to touch him to make sure he was not a ghost. While they were trying to process what they were looking at, Jesus asked for something to eat. A spirit would not eat people food. He ate the fish and honey so they could watch. Jesus told them that what they were experiencing was what he and the prophets had prophecied about. Jesus explained that it was necessary that he suffer, die, and be raised up the 3rd day. He also opened up scripture to them like Hosea 6 which says: “1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” Jesus came to heal and bind up their wombs but he sent them on to Jerusalem to wait for the power God was going to send like the latter rain. The Holy Spirit would help them to live in the light. Jesus led them to Bethany then blessed them and was carried up to heaven. The disciples worshipped the Lord, and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy and went to the temple praising and blessing God. I can only imagine what it was like to see Jesus risen from the grave and have him explain scripture. We now have the Holy Spirit who never leaves us who can do that if we allow him to. Holy Spirit, open our eyes to your Word. Let your latter rain fall on us.