“How foolish you are, and how slow to believe … !” Wow! What strong hash words from Jesus. Words like these can make people defensive, mad, or upset.
He spoke these words to wake up his disciples and give them a new understanding of life. The disciples needed to move from a place of blindness to a place of sight. They saw the death of Jesus as an obstacle and a loss, while it was the greatest victory in the history of mankind. They had heard that Jesus was alive again, risen from the dead, but they were stuck in the past, a place of complaining and could not see that Jesus had enabled them to receive the gift of life. They needed strong harsh medicine to heal their spiritual blindness.
Today we are just as blind as Jesus’s disciples, and we need some strong words from God to wake us up. As God’s people, we are part of a fearful story, and we often live as if this world is all there is. We are so captured by what we can see that we miss the unseen. He wants to join us on the road like he did his disciples and explain his word to us, his presence should illuminate our minds and set our hearts burning. So that new possibilities open up as we recognize him and all he has done to give us a new life.
“How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!” Luke 24:25
Let’s Pray
Yahweh, I confess my spiritual blindness and hardened heart that have blocked our connection. Father, open the eyes of my heart so that I can see who you really are and that you want me to live abundantly. Receive me, I pray Lord, in Christ’s name. Amen.
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