What Things?

And He said to them, What things? 

So they said to Him, The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people… 

Luke 24:19 

Christ is the Master of the well-placed question. After He rose from the dead, He showed Himself to be alive to various disciples under different circumstances. One instance was while two of the disciples were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. Christ came alongside them, engaged them in conversation and asked why they were so sad. They responded, ‘Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?’ To that Christ responded, ‘What things?’ He was eliciting from them a recitation of what they knew. To that question they responded with a narrative of the public ministry of Christ. They spoke of His execution; what they had hoped and how their hopes had died with Him. They related the story of the women who had gone to the garden tomb. This exhausted their store of knowledge. Christ responded with, ‘O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?’’ He then began ‘at Moses and all the Prophets’ to explain to them ‘the things concerning Himself.’ Christ often does similarly with us. He allows us to exhaust our store of knowledge and then steps in to reveal to us much more truth than we ever knew before. He is our inexhaustible storehouse of revelation. 

Our Gracious, Loving Savior, 
we rejoice that You come alongside us 
when we are in our saddest moments. 
We praise You that You open the Scriptures 
and reveal Yourself to us. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning