The Lord has risen!

Happy Easter! Today is the day that we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Three days ago he died on a cross upon Calvary. Although this was a sad event, today is the day that we have been waiting for in anticipation. For today Christ has risen from the day. This morning I was reading in the gospel of Luke, about the resurrection, and marveling at what has happened today. Christ died, but his body is nowhere to be found.
One of the most intriguing part of Luke to me is the end of the book: the Road to Emmaus. I have posted it below for you to read. But let me quickly give you my take on it. When I read this I sometimes put myself in the place of one of the believers. And think of how I would react. If I had seen Christ die in that cross and then looked in that tomb and say it empty. And now a man comes up to me on the road and asks what are we talking about. I don’t know I would react. Especially if this man turned out to be Jesus. I think I would freak out. I sometimes put like to put this passage into perspective in my life.
So many times I find myself in situations like that one. We I have some one walking beside me that I don’t know and is asking me about Christ. Instead of coming up with this wonderful explanation I choke. Not because I don’t know what to say, but because I am afraid of how this person might react to what I am saying. Instead of worrying what they think about what I am saying I should just love them and say what Christ would say and not worry about a thing.

Luke 24:13-35 - On the Road to Emmaus

13Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16but they were kept from recognizing him. 17He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you walk along?" They stood still, their faces downcast. 18One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"
19 "What things?" he asked. "About Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. "He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23but didn't find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see." 25He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" 27And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. 28As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther. 29But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them. 30When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?" 33They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34and saying, "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon." 35Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.