EASTER THURSDAY ......28.04.11
LUKE 24:35-48...... IT IS WRITTEN THAT CHRIST WOULD SUFFER AND ON THE THIRD DAY RISE FROM THE DEAD
It is relatively easier for us to believe that Christ rose from the dead but it was not so for the first disciples. They were nurtured in the belief based on a long standing tradition that the Messiah would be a conquering king, a descendant of the great king David and would establish an earthly kingdom. They were not inclined to believe the reports of the women-disciples and the two other disciples that they saw Jesus alive. They dismissed it as a figment of their imagination or some kind of a vision or apparition or the mere appearance of the ghost of the dead Jesus.Moreover they were in mortal fear of the Jews and locked themselves up in a room not even venturing to go out. It was in this background that Jesus appears to them and explains the scriptures regarding the necessity of his passion, death and resurrection and to prove that he is not a ghost shows them the wounds on his body and eats with them as a normal human would.
Whenever we are in confusion, grief,fear or difficulties the Word of God gives us the necessary consolation and courage to face any problems in life.Jesus will show us the way out and will appear in the guise of some good samaritan to prove that he is alive in our midst to help us in our troubles. We only have to trust Jesus.
God Bless.
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