"And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?"Luke 24:32
If God does not open the soul of sinful humans to understand His Word, then we would never understand or comprehend the wonderful message His Word conveys. Without the gracious intervention of the Holy Spirit, our hearts would remain cold to the truth of Scripture. This, the Bible says, is because the Words of God are spiritual and only revealed through God's grace through the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:6-16)
These disciples who encounter the Risen Lord that First Easter had their eyes opened to Jesus' passion for them only when He so does this that very day, verse 30-31. Vanishing from their sight, they speak that their hearts were burning, being filled with peace and joy now learning and understanding from Jesus that His crucifixion and resurrection were for the forgiveness of their sins. (24:26-27)
This same Lord continues today to open eyes and hearts through proclamation of His Word in preaching and teaching so that hearts are burning knowing for sure that their sins are forgiven by the faith given to them to realize that this Christ, this Messiah, Jesus fulfills all that needs to be fulfilled to redeem us from sin, death and devil. As this is the heart of the entire Bible as Jesus here teaches, we too must teach this same permeating Good News, so that hearts may burn with the peace and comfort this sweet grace provides.
So we thirst, we hunger for those moments where are hearts do truly burn with joy and thankful wonder at the gracious words of forgiveness for sinners in the precious Gospel of Christ Jesus. We yearn for study of this Word and we yearn for its pure preaching so that our hearts and lives may be filled with God's grace and mercy found in Jesus, our Savior.
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