Please read the passage before the commentary.
It is Easter week. Our Hispanic friends call it Wednesday of Easter. For them, it is Easter even though it is Wednesday. In English we speak of Easter Wednesday or Wednesday of Easter Week. So, we are plodding along on our journeys like the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. Bogged down with our own problems, as we journey, who approaches us? Is it a stranger or is it Jesus is disguise?
Sometimes we think we have problems understanding God, when we have problems understanding ourselves. If we should really understand ourselves, we would probably understand God.
Were we hoping that whatever spectacular experience we were having would be our redemption, the way the disciples had looked upon Jesus? Do we need to hear similar wards to these, “How foolish you are; was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer, or that our personal Christ-event should collapse, so that we can enter into his glory?
God had guided something as catastrophic as the death of Christ for the disciples in order to bring them to salvation. God also guides the catastrophes of our lives to bring us to salvation.
I hope that our hearts burn within us as we come to know more and more what God has in mind for us.
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