Happy Easter- He is risen indeed.

One of my favorite images from the Bible passages is the "Road to Emmaus".
After the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, two disciples were on the way to Emmaus (= bath water). Then Jesus appeared and joined them in their conversation.

Luke 24 (KJV)
"And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? "

It makes sense to ask the Holy Spirit to teach us when we read the Bible!!
For when our eyes are opened, we know Jesus.
When we read the Bible just as a regular book, nothing burns inside us because we don't know Him. If we know Jesus already and nothing burns withing us, I would keep reading because emotion doesn't need to lead us. But that is not what I am talking about. When the Holy Spirit shows us something personally, then something inside burns. This is available to all of us who want to have it. I believe that. The passage says "...while he opened to us the scriptures?" Which part? Luke 24:27 "... beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

The New Testament teaches us about Jesus yet when the authors of the NT encourage us to read the scriptures, they must mean the Old Testament because they were the beginning of the New Testament and the NT part of the Bible was not available. This was one of the reasons why I started reading the OT.

May our hearts burn within us!

Happy Easter!