Everything begins to change

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”  Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.  You are my witnesses of these things (Luke 24:44-48). 

The disciples knew what was written about Jesus, they spent time with Him, and He repeatedly told them what was to come.  Ironically enough, they walked with Jesus for three years and still weren’t getting it.  Everything they had known of Him, and about Him on a cognitive level (in their mental thinking) suddenly was all challenged that weekend.  After Jesus’s resurrection everything changed.  Now they saw it, they experienced it, Jesus had risen on the third day, just as He said He would. Their minds were opened and this was when everything began to change.

It’s amazing how we can read the Bible and still not understand.  I mean sure, we may know it cognitively, it may be rolling around in our heads, yet still may not fully understand it.  However, then comes the day Jesus reveals Himself.  A little experiential revelation of the Risen Christ in our lives, and everything begins to change.  

Then Jesus says, and behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you.  But stay until you are clothed with power from on high (Luke 24:49)

Jesus, open our minds that we would understand!  You came and suffered, You died, and on the third day You rose, so that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in Your name to the ends of the Earth.  Father, thank You for Your promise, the promise of the Holy Spirit.  Come Holy Spirit, come, and may we receive, greater is He who lives in us than he who lives in the world.  In Jesus Name, Amen.