Amen dear sister! What joy to be able to spend time with Jesus face-to-face! But, there was another reason why the two disciples were so excited. It was not just that they had seen Jesus and He was risen from the grave, but it was that message that they now understood.
"Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the Scriptures?"
They understood that it was to them that the message was given. Are we not as excited ourselves, because we have been given the last message of warning to a world soon to Perish? Are you not as excited as they were? We ought to be. I am!
The church sleeps not understanding that God will give them love, joy, and peace continually if they will give their hearts continually to Jesus. Not only love, joy, and peace, but long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance which is self control. All of these are in the life of those who love Jesus with the whole heart holding nothing back.
The church remains in a Laodicean condition not understanding what it means to be converted. The Laodicean believes he is rich and increased with goods not knowing he is blind to the gospel message. If you are no longer blind to your continual need of Jesus and that the gospel message means freedom from sin, then you know of this excitement that the two disciples felt as they journeyed back to Jerusalem. Many in Babylon are open to the truth and it is our privilege to give to them the bread of life, the gospel message. And there are multitudes not just in our church, but in the world who have no peace and will listen to this most wonderful message, the most wonderful ever given in the whole universe!!
The night is dark, but the Sun of Righteousness is shining upon them. Their hearts leap for joy. They seem to be in a new world. Christ is a living Saviour. They no longer mourn over Him as dead. Christ is risen--over and over again they repeat it. This is the message they are carrying to the sorrowing ones. They must tell them the wonderful story of the walk to Emmaus. They must tell who joined them by the way. They carry the greatest message ever given to the world, a message of glad tidings upon which the hopes of the human family for time and for eternity depend.