‘Jesus Himself drew near and went with them’
In the way.
Luke 24:35-36
In the breaking of bread.
In the midst.
I walked abroad, and on life’s toilsome way
He met me there.
In home’s sweet peace, my hearth at close of day
He came to share.
I sought His own, of Him to hear and tell
In converse rare;
When lo! a hush, a sudden glory fell:
The Lord was there!
Another gem from the pen of J.M.S. Tait found in BELLS AND POMEGRANATES. Three phrases are picked out of the record of a single day, the stunning day of the resurrection of our Lord. Just as those two disheartened, doubting, weary disciples had their hearts warmed on the dusty road when ‘Jesus himself drew near and went with them’, so we can know the Lord walking with us on our lonely pathway in life; just as those two invited this stranger into their humble home and had their eyes opened so that they knew Him, so we can know His presence in our homes as He sets our hearths ablaze; just as Cleopas and his companion hurried back to Jerusalem to tell the other disciples that they had met the Lord and that He was alive again, so we thrill when we tell others about our experiences of Him; and then, to cap it all, in our fellowship with Him as we gather to talk about Him and listen about Him, He is suddenly there. The Lord is once again in His temple!