Ouch that Hurts!!!

Luke 24:25-27 

Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Sometimes a rebuke hurts, especially from the Lord, but we know from Scripture that the Lord only disciplines those whom He loves.  It’s for our benefit to admonish us so that we walk steadfastly for Him, to be aware what offends Him or doesn’t represent Him.

The story, in Luke 24, shows us that these two men were not apostles but they were followers of Christ. “Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.” (v.9) They were a part of the rest, and they had their views, but it wasn’t complete. They were going to be filled in by the greatest expositor ever.

So as they were heading home after a long week, they were confused because they were walking with the Lord for some time before His crucifixion, but they missed what it was all about. What we see in the story is that Jesus took the time to first hear where they were in their understanding. Then He did something even better and explained the Scriptures - Scriptures that spoke about Him in how He would suffer and be crucified and then rise again. These two were given the best Bible study ever and all of this before He revealed Himself.

That’s the way the Lord works. He will first see where we are, what we understand and then He will open the Word and show us who He is so when He does reveal Himself it all makes perfect sense.

You know when Paul wrote about how he was confident that Christ was completing a good work in the Philippians, it’s because he experienced it first hand. For years he studied. He knew the law in and out, but it wasn’t until Christ revealed Himself on the road to Damascus that He truly saw the Lord, and the Lord used him to write a bulk of the New Testament. Just think what the Lord wants to do with you.