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"But their eyes were holden that they should not know Him."
--Luke 24:16
The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard His
voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently,
that it is wonderful they did not discover Him. Yet is it not so
with you also? You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to
His table, and you have not met Him there. You are in a dark
trouble this evening, and though He plainly says, "It is I, be
not afraid," yet you cannot discern Him. Alas! our eyes are
holden. We know His voice; we have looked into His face; we
have leaned our head upon His bosom, and yet, though Christ is
very near us, we are saying "O that I knew where I might find
Him!" We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to
reflect His image, and yet how possible it is for us to open
that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved! Dear
child of God, are you in that state? Jesus feedeth among the
lilies of the word, and you walk among those lilies, and yet you
behold Him not. He is accustomed to walk through the glades of
Scripture, and to commune with His people, as the Father did
with Adam in the cool of the day, and yet you are in the garden
of Scripture, but cannot see Him, though He is always there. And
why do we not see Him? It must be ascribed in our case, as in
the disciples', to unbelief. They evidently did not expect to
see Jesus, and therefore they did not know Him. To a great
extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord.
Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. Make it your prayer,
"Lord, open Thou mine eyes, that I may see my Saviour present
with me." It is a blessed thing to want to see Him; but oh! it
is better far to gaze upon Him. To those who seek Him He is
kind; but to those who find Him, beyond expression is He dear!