Jesus makes himself known to two disciples
While women, present at the tomb early in the morning, are already in post drama regarding Jesus, the disciples, yet aware of what they saw and of course, remain where the last time they saw their Master. In their hearts, Jesus died and no new spoken by anyone, so extraordinary it is, has the power to remove from their hearts and their minds the weight of disappointment. It is in this spirit that, from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus, two of them made the meeting that changed everything.
Then they talked together in this way for several days now fully occupied their thoughts, Jesus came to travel with them. The two disciples greeted the problem without new companion that "randomly" placed in their way, without realizing who was walking there with them. We do not know why the disciples did not recognize their master immediately. It is likely however that absorbed their spirit was so intense that it prevented them from accurately interpret reality that was around them. Although organs made to make us able to see, this is not our eyes, but the spirit, and light or the darkness that inhabit it, that determine what we can or can not perceive the reality: Luke 11.34.
Playing the ignorant, Jesus left with His two disciples tell their version and their perceived his own story. Learn from him here on the need to let him speak and listen to everyone on our path, God sends us to share the suffering, disappointment and disillusionment that marked their lives. Still, in all circumstances, it is a necessity, listening must precede the word. It is impossible to open the way to a new understanding of his situation to a person in distress, if we do not let through and speak in full on that in his view, constitutes causes.
Having told Jesus their disappointment and perplexity in which the additional evidence reported by women had made, The latter took his turn to speak. Placing them on the ground of the Word, the only sound basis for interpreting the right way all we live in, Jesus undertook in the time allotted, to thoroughly revisit the Scriptures so that through this new light, the disciples see the logic of what had happened to his subject. What disturbs us most, indeed, in disarray in which we can plunge our experience, are not events in themselves, but their apparent inconsistency, the inconsistency in which they immerse us in terms of design we had previously of God and reality. Let us know it: as the link between the things we live and God is lost, it is impossible for us to find peace and live in a dynamic of joy; by cons, when it is found, the two feelings come back with him. To be effective, the role of spiritual advisor is, like that of Jesus here, always the same: From the Word to find it in the lights to interpret rightly before God and lived. The light brought the situation certainly has not changed, but the pain it has caused itself disappears.
Enlightened by Jesus, the disciples' eyes will soon recognize him. A single gesture, this time, they simply need to, with certainty, they know now, yes it's true, He is risen indeed! It is before their eyes in their hearts that, however, by the fire that the words of their Master has turned the conviction was made. Few of us now and in this world have the privilege of seeing Jesus in their own eyes. This does not work with him. His Spirit and His Word are we able to make the present more than if he was now physically next to us! Paul says: we know Christ in a different way than those who knew him in the flesh, 2 Cor 5.14 . But because that knowledge is internal, hidden deep within our being we know Him better!
Enlightened, convinced the disciples no longer need to continue to Emmaus. Despite the declining day, they turn back and go to Jerusalem. A new, like they just learned, can be contained. We must share it to everyone in the drama that Jesus continues to obscure the heart and mind. With them, in our time, Jesus will make us His witnesses! Let us be convinced: only the personal knowledge of the risen Jesus has the power to change personal vision of everyone in the world!
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