Luke 24
Heart on Fire!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, June 4.
What causes your heart to burn within you? Is it heartburn or is there a passion inside your heart?
There’s a big difference!
Today, we are reading from the last chapter of Luke. If you have been reading along with me, you have now read all three of the synoptic gospels. Congratulations! Tomorrow, we start the Gospel of John. May the Holy Spirit open your heart and mind to fall in love with the Jesus of the Bible, as if for the first time. That is my prayer for all of us.
In Luke 24:13-35, the story of Jesus revealing Himself to two of His disciples occurs over the sharing of a meal. Jesus had walked from Jerusalem to Emmaus with them and they did not know that they were walking with the resurrected Lord, but in the sharing of a meal their eyes were opened as Jesus breaks the bread. Listen to Verses 30-32,
When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight. 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?”
Did the bread Jesus serve them give them heartburn? No, the phrase is an idiom! The resurrected Jesus excited them—they felt passion as He opened up the Word to them as He walked and talked with them. His Presence lit a fire in their hearts!
Seize the moment and go the Table to meet with Jesus each and every day. The resurrected Lord wants to meet with you and break bread with you. Don’t let the stress of your circumstances give you heartburn, but let Jesus’ Presence with you set your heart on fire!
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