Road to Emmaus

But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. http://bible.us/Luke24.21.ESV

I had the opportunity to preach on the Scripture above this morning. This is taken out of Luke 24, the two disciples and the road to Emmaus.

Jesus had just been crucified 3 days earlier, and the disciples were disillusioned to say the least.

This one verse is amazing because it exemplifies the "hope deferred" feeling the disciples had, as well as the symbol of their greatest answer or hope, in that it was the third day.

The disciples thought Jesus was going to redeem Isreal by delivering them from Roman rule, and what they thought was a great defeat (Jesus' death) which led to great confusion, they were actually in the midst of a greater story/deliverance/answer then they ever could have imagined - salvation had come to the world.

The point is this - we have a tendency to become disillusioned by our circumstances when things don't work out the way we thought. But don't give up hope, you might be in the middle of the greatest breakthrough, or a better answer than you could've ever asked or imagined.

Let's ask God for His perspective on the things in life we are facing, that we might see the bigger picture, God's picture, of what He is doing in our lives and in the world around us.

We might be surprised to find out we're in the middle of a God moment way bigger and better than any plans we could've ever come up with ;)