A New Reality
Read This Week: Luke 24
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! – Luke 24:4-6a NIV
In Luke 24, on the first day of the week, a few faithful women came to the tomb with spices, expecting to find Jesus’ lifeless body. Instead, they found the stone rolled away, and two angels asked them, Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen! (v. 5-6) The resurrection wasn’t just a happy ending but the beginning of a new reality. Death no longer had the final word. Jesus’ triumph over the grave signals the start of a new life for all who believe. We don’t have to live as though the tomb is still sealed. We don’t have to be held back by fear, regret, or spiritual apathy. Resurrection power means we can walk in freedom under the new covenant of Christ. Whether our tombs are old habits, struggles, wounds, or doubts, Jesus speaks life into us through the eternal power of the resurrection.
One section of the chapter shows us two discouraged disciples walking away from Jerusalem and moving in the wrong direction. They believed Jesus was the Messiah, but now He was dead, so they thought. Then Jesus Himself joined them, unrecognized, and gently walked them through the Scriptures that pointed to His suffering and glory. They finally recognized Him when He broke bread, and He moved their hearts into understanding. Jesus does the same for us; His Holy Spirit meets us in our confusion, disappointment, and disillusionment. He doesn’t shame us but goes with us, opens our eyes, and revives our hope into a new reality. When we walk away from our “Jerusalems,” so to speak, our place of calling, our faith, or our community because things didn’t turn out, Jesus meets us there and walks us back in step with His will.
Then, in the text, Jesus appeared to the larger group of disciples in Jerusalem. They were startled and frightened, assuming they’d seen a ghost. But Jesus invited them to touch His hands and feet and even ate solid food with them. He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures and gave them their mission: proclaiming repentance and forgiveness in His name to all nations. The resurrection became more than a celebration of life; it became a mission to be on. The disciples were eyewitnesses to a miracle and a new reality and mandate. The same Jesus who brings us peace also gives us purpose. Faith is to be under wraps. We must share the good news of forgiveness and hope found in Christ.
Luke closes his Gospel not with a funeral but with a coronation. Jesus led His disciples to Bethany, blessed them, and ascended into heaven. After this, the disciples embraced their new reality as Christ-followers and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. The ascension isn’t Jesus leaving us behind. It’s Him going ahead, preparing the way, and sending His Spirit to guide us into truth (as Luke later expands on in Acts). His enthronement guarantees His ongoing intercession and authority. We often treat life like it’s all on our shoulders. But the risen and ascended Christ is sovereign and reigns from an immutable seat of power. He is not absent; He is actively ruling, praying, and preparing for our full redemption. That truth is our new reality and can anchor us through any season or time.
We are called to live as resurrection people in a world that still exists in the impression and seeming defeat of Good Friday. Because of the resurrection, we can live differently with courage and walk in confidence as we worship, wait, and witness. Let’s not rush past the empty tomb or look too long at the sky. Let’s walk with Jesus, proclaim the good news, and live like people who genuinely believe in our new reality in Christ.
We love Jesus, and we love a week in the life.
Luke Chapter 24 Verse 31
When their eyes were [instantly] opened and they [clearly] recognized Him, and He vanished departed (invisibly).
Luke Chapter 24 Verse 32
And they said to one another, Were not our hearts greatly moved and burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and as He opened and explained to us [the sense of] the scriptures?
God Is Saying To Me:
My child, don’t ever be saddened or sorrowful where I am concerned. You know Me personally and your eyes, heart and mind have been opened to understand the truth concerning Me. When you gave your life to me, you were blind but when receiving the Holy Spirit, you now understand the transformative power of understanding the truth about Me, just like Peter and the other disciple. The truth of My Holy Spirit and the words from the Bible will make your heart burn stronger and ignite a spiritual understanding that fuels a deeper connection with Me.
What This Means To Me:
1. God’s presence and God’s words are powerful in our lives. The more we engage in worship and study, the closer we become and understand God’s plans for our lives.
2. A burning heart for Jesus and comprehension of the scriptures leads us to a spiritual revelation of who Christ truly is. The more we study and reflect on the scriptures and God’s word, we experience a burning and newfound understanding and excitement for Christ.
3. Always actively engage with the Bible, striving to understand all of its truths and allowing God’s word to illuminate our hearts and lives.
4. We all were blind but now we see and understand that the truth will set you free! Thank you Father God for setting us free when we gave our life to You in faith! ❤️
This week in Luke chapter 24 I got a song
He lives
Let’s come together to worship our Lord let’s come together to worship our Lord praise and singing, glory ,glory hallelujah. Our Lord gave his life for you and me our Lord gave his life for you and me so we could be set free. Our Lord Jesus comes to save our Lord Jesus comes to save We praise you praise you, Lord let’s open our eyes to see what he has for us. Let’s listen with our ears to what he wants us to hear so let’s come together trusting believing in our Lord being faithful every day Living in his spirit living in his spirit everywhere we go amen
Our Lord sacrifice, his life came back to save us his children, so let’s be proud and know that his spirit is in us. he is real and lives in us Amen
from Sacrifice to Resurrection
A Love story unfolding
Before there was an empty tomb
there was a long trail of Sacrifices
In Leviticus we see a Holy God who longed to dwell with His people but sin stood in the way.
so God made a way.
through offerings, priest, and the Tabernacle, He provided a way through restoration.
the people had to bring something He provided grain, oil salt, their very best
yet it was temporary.
It all pointed forward to something Greater.
JESUS.
the perfect gift.
The once and for all sacrifice, Paid in full. Thank you Jesus!
And now in Luke 24 we see the fulfillment of all the Leviticus was leading too.
This story is not just in the empty grave
it’s in the faithfulness of Father God.
and the faithfulness of the people who loved Father God and Jesus!
Just like the women who ran to tell the others,
just like the disciples who hung out with Jesus, eyes were opened and went to share with others,
we get to share, we have a testimony, we carry the good news that Jesus is alive and still walking with us.
So today I just want to encourage you,
let it all be worship, your walk with Jesus, your words, your heart
Remember what He’s done. What He continues to do.
And now. we get to go and share the good news – Jesus loves us and He is walking with us.
we get to go and share Jesus love with others.
Were living proof that Jesus is Alive.
So let’s go out with the joy of the Lord and
walk with purpose and live like the story isn’t over because it’s not,
He’s still writing it….. through us.
Thank you Father God that we get to walk with you Jesus and Your Holy Spirit
I love you all so very much
thank you Jesus for all you did and continue to do!!!
I love you Father God Jesus and your Holy Spirit ❤️️
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This is what I got from God in Luke 24. In this chapter, the stone was rolled away so that others could see in and be persuaded that Jesus Christ was and is risen from the dead. His resurrection was announced by angels, to a few women. The “living are not to be found among the dead.” The women were given the privilege of being the first to tell others of the risen Jesus. The resurrection meant that the payment that Jesus offered on the cross, was perfect and complete. When My love and man’s hate, battled at the cross, My love won. Jesus wants to know can you believe without seeing with your own eyes? You often think that the main obstacles to belief are in your head, but they are actually in your heart. You should pray that I will open your eyes to see Jesus as He is, as being with you at all times. When Jesus appeared to the disciples, and said “peace to you”, it meant that true peace would come between Me and man, and among men. Jesus arose in spirit and body. I want from you a reasoned, thought-out faith; I want you to think and believe. The blessing of Jesus has inherent power within it. If He has blessed you, you shall be blessed, for there is no power in heaven, or earth, or hell, that can reverse the blessing which He gives. Jesus had to ascend so that confidence would be put in the power and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus commissioned the apostles to go and preach the gospel to all nations, emphasizing their role as witnesses, I also want you to do the same thing. Continue bringing others to Me, while you are waiting for Jesus’ to return. Be a messenger for Me.
What this said to me was Jesus’ death and resurrection allows me to have a relationship with God. God wants me to share His word with others. The more I study His word, The better I can be a messenger for Him. As long as we are here waiting for His return, we keep bringing God’s love to people. I love that the women were important enough, to be first to know He was resurrected. I as a daughter of the King, matter to Him and He is always with me.