Eyes and Hearts Opened

 Exodus 9-11; Luke 24 

“When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?’…Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.”

Luke 24:30-32, 45

It is a work of God’s grace in our lives to have our eyes and our mind opened to recognize Jesus and understand the Scriptures. The revelation of our need for God’s mercy and forgiveness for sin is the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which followed this revelation of the resurrected Christ on the road to Emmaus, opened the hearts and minds of thousands and now hundreds of millions of people in all nations to their need for Christ. For those of us who are opening the Scriptures to others, we, too, must be praying for the eye-opening and heart-opening ministry of the Holy Spirit to accompany the teaching of God’s Word. We, too, must remain in ‘Jerusalem’ until we have been clothed with power from on high (Luke 24:49).

“Lord Jesus, open hearts today to your truth and the application of your Word to our lives, for your glory.”