MONDAY July 25, 2022

Do You Recognize Who Jesus is?

...to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Acts 1:3

There were many infallible proofs that happened when Jesus Resurrected. Mary Magdalene did not recognize Him at first; she thought He was the gardener until He said her name. Then she recognized her Lord and responded, “Rabboni!” (John 20:16). Mary was the first to witness Christ’s Resurrection. Excited, she went to tell the disciples.

It is written that Jesus showed Himself alive to Peter, the Twelve, 500 other disciples, and all the Apostles, in 1 Corinthians 15:3-9, but do you remember the discouraged disciples on the road to Emmaus? Jesus walked right alongside them, and He began to explain the Scriptures beginning with Moses and all the Prophets. He also expounded on all the Scriptures concerning Himself (Luke 24:13-27). Like Mary, at first they did not recognize Jesus; they thought He was a stranger.

It was only when Jesus broke bread with them that they recognized their risen Lord, but He disappeared. Reflecting back to when He walked with them on the road, they realized something special about their encounter with Him, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32).

Now greatly encouraged, these two encouraged disciples returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven disciples, along with others, who were gathered together and confirmed with them the Resurrection of Christ:

“The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread (Luke 24:34-35).

God’s Word will help you to recognize who Jesus Christ is. Your heart will ignite within you as you open up the Scriptures.

The account of the life of Jesus Christ is the only biography known to man that does not end with death and burial—the only record of human life that joyfully hastens on to the next chapter after the last!
~A. W. Tozer~

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