Behold, Hearts on Fire with the Word

Nancy: Let me just say a word of thank you to you for being here this weekend. For those who taking care of your children back home, those who've joined us on the livestream, and then hundreds of team members, staff members, volunteers, ambassadors in this place in in other places who have served to make this weekend possible for us, for all our speakers, for all the participants, aren't you grateful for them? One of the things you can pray for me and for our team and for all of these speakers and for all of us . . . I often experience what I call the battle after the battle 

We've been here like in the portals of heaven and sometimes it can be fifteen minutes or fifteen hours, and you get home. You find out your husband's letting the kids watch something that you don't ever let them watch, and you lose it. Remember, you're tired. 

Remember, you're spent. Yes, this has been precious, but we are flesh, and we're vulnerable. We need the protection of Jesus. His truth, His Spirit in the battle after the battle; we need it all the time 

Let's be praying for each other in the days ahead that we will honor Him not just when we're on the platform. Listen, how I talked to my husband tonight when I'm bone weary is way more important than how I talked to you in these moments; same for you. Lord just protect us. 

I also want to just mention, I heard just a few moments ago that we've had women from ninety different countries joining through the livestream this weekend. How precious is that? 

Okay, as Jackie would say, let's get to it. Luke 24. 

I invite you to turn in your Bible to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 24. It's a longish chapter, and I'm going to attempt to walk through most of it, just a little bit as a tour guide, not in any deep way. But I want to pull out a few things for you to take home as we go from this place. 

I want you to notice as we read through this chapter, much of it, the centrality of the Scripture, the Word of God. I had never noticed all the times you see it in Luke 24. We see the written Word. We see the living Word. And when we get to those verses that particularly talk about that, I'm going to have them on the screen and highlighting where we see the references to the Word in this chapter. We'll see that the Word of God is life-giving and life-changing. 

Now you're in Luke 24. I'm going to pick up just at the very end of Luke 23 just to give us some context where we are. Chapter 23 details Luke's account of the crucifixion as Jesus is executed. He's hung to die between two criminals. We read about how at noon darkness falls on the earth for three hours, how the curtain in the temple is torn so that access to God can be granted. And Jesus breathes His last and He dies. 

Chapter 23, verse 49: 

But all who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things. 

Now then in the next verse and the several verses following, we see how Joseph of Arimathea takes Jesus' body down from the cross. He places it in a tomb, and we learn that the Sabbath is about to begin. So it's coming to dusk on Friday. We see that the women who had stood there watching at the crucifixion continue to follow the body of Jesus all the way, in verse 55. They observed the tomb and how His body was placed. 

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath [sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday] according to the commandment. (v. 56) 

That's the first reference I see to the Word of God in this extended passage. These women knew God's Word, even though they did not have copies to hold in their hands as we are blessed to do. 

Even in the midst of this enormous loss and grief and pain, they kept His commandments faithfully. God had rested on the seventh day. God had commanded that the Sabbath day be observed and kept holy. So here they are. You think they could say, “But this is a good excuse not to keep God's command.” But they obeyed the Word of the Lord. 

Then we come to chapter 24, verse 1. 

On the first day of the week [that would be in our week, Sunday] very early in the morning [those same women] came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared. 

And you remember how when they got there, they found that the stone had been rolled away. The body of Jesus was gone and there were two men, the Scripture says, who appeared to them in dazzling white clothes. They were angels. We know this as you put the gospel accounts together, and the women were terrified. Of course they were. What in the world is going on? And these men said to them, verse 5: 

“Why are you looking for the living among the dead? He is not here, but he has risen!” (vv. 5–6)

Now you think of Easter services, and, “He has risen. He has risen indeed.” And you think, Oh, this is so glorious. He is risen. But that message is not what these women were expecting that morning. They were expecting to find the lifeless body of the one they had followed and loved. But these men said to them: 

“Remember how he spoke to you [the Word of the Lord] when he was still in Galilee, saying, ‘It is necessary that the son of man be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day’?” And they remembered his words. (vv. 6–8)

The midst of their confusion, their sorrow, their fear, they needed to be reminded of the words Christ had spoken to them. It was the Word of Christ that turned their terror into clarity and faith and eventually to great joy. It's the wWord of Christ that gives us peace in the midst of circumstances for which there is no human explanation, no making sense of it, crazy, confusing, mixed up, messed up. They remembered His words. 

You go back to your confusing workplace or home or even church. You may be facing that. We must remember His Word. Verse 9: 

Returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them were telling the apostles these things. But these words seem like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women. Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. [We know from John 20 that John, the apostle was with him also.] When Peter stooped to look in, he saw only the linen cloths. So he went away, amazed at what had happened. Now that same day . . . (vv. 9–13) 

This is Sunday still. This is Resurrection Day. This is going to be a long day for several people in this story. The women had started very early in the morning going to the tomb. Now that same day, we come to a new scene: 

Two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus. (v. 13) 

This was about seven miles from Jerusalem. Verse 18 will tell us that one of these was named Cleopas, so we know that one was a man. We're not told who the other one was. It may have been the wife of Cleopas. It may have been a man friend, two disciples walking. We know one was a male. We know there were two of them. The text indicates when you put it all together that these two were among those who had witnessed the crucifixion. They had heard the women's report about what they had seen and heard at the tomb. And they were among those who thought the women were losing it and did not believe the women. So verse 14: 

Together [these two disciples, these two followers of Jesus] were discussing everything that had taken place. 

They were no “just” bystanders, no “just” tourists. They were part of this whole group of followers of Jesus. They were discussing everything that had taken place. 

And while they were discussing and arguing . . . (v. 15) 

I just don't know what they were arguing about. And apparently we don't need to know, because Scripture doesn't tell us. But they were discussing and arguing. And while they were having this heated conversation, I love this: 

Jesus himself came near and began to walk with them. (v. 15) 

How precious is this? How many discussions and even arguments are going on among believers today about things that are taking place in our world, in our country? There's so much confusion. There's a lot of discussion, a lot of arguing. I'm so thankful that Jesus himself draws near to us in our times of confusion. He is with us. He is in us. And He walks with us by His Spirit and enters into our conversations and into our confusion. 

He will do this for you in your home. He will do this when you're having an argument with your husband or with your teenager or with your two-year-old . . . nd your two-year-old is winning. Jesus Himself will come to you by His Holy Spirit in you and walk with you. And what He will do in those next moments will change the whole scene. Verse 16: 

But they were prevented from recognizing him. 

The Holy Spirit has to open our eyes to recognize Jesus. They had just been with Him. They had been with Him perhaps for a very long time. But in this moment in Jesus' glorified body, their eyes were not yet open to perceive, to behold who Jesus was. Verse 17: 

Then he asked them, “What is this dispute that you're having with each other as you are walking?” And they stopped walking and they looked discouraged.

Your translation may say they “looked sad.” That just describes it. There's kind of a pall over this. These two, they're sad. They're discouraged. They're arguing. 

The one named Cleopas answered him, “Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that happened here that happened there in these days?” [I love verse 19.] “What things?” he asked them.” (vv. 18–19)

What things? Are you kidding? What things? They're thinking, You don't know? Like, you haven't been watching the news? You haven't been following this!? Of course, Jesus knew what they had been discussing. He knew what things had been going on. He knew they were dejected and discouraged. But I love that before answering their questions or addressing their emotional distress, he wanted them to tell him what they were thinking, what was troubling them. He didn't just launch into the answer as we are often prone to do with people who are in distress. 

Because he said to them, “What things? Like, tell me what is bothering you?” And they said to him in this next paragraph, here's their answer. 

“The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth who was [past tense] a prophet powerful in action and speech before God and all the people and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him. But we were hoping that he was the one who was about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, it's the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women from our group astounded us. They arrived early at the tomb, and when they didn't find his body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn't see him.” (vv. 19–24)

So here they dump out on Jesus who just said, “What things?” their jumbled, confused, depressed, mixed-up thoughts, while Jesus listened patiently. 

Aren't you glad He does? He can handle our jumbled, confused, mixed-up thoughts. 

These men knew Jesus, they cared deeply about Him, but their hopes had been dashed. “We were hoping that He was the one who had been promised, the one who was to redeem Israel.” The pieces weren't fitting together. “We were hoping, but now He's dead—although there's a rumor that He's alive. What in the world is going on? This is not what we had hoped for!” They're disappointed. They're discouraged, maybe a little bit mad. 

Isn't that the way we feel at times? We were hoping, but things are not as we had hoped in this broken, mixed-up, messed-up world. Yes, we know Jesus. Yes, we love Him, but we live in a broken world, a world of pain, a world where evil seems to triumph—perhaps in your own home, perhaps in your workplace, perhaps in your community. The righteous suffer in some parts of our world today. 

I was just reading this yesterday or this morning about thousands of Nigerian Christians who have been killed for their faith in the last couple of years, and you almost never see it in the news. But that is the real world where they are living today. 

We were hoping that He would rescue us from our enemies. We were hoping that those who trusted in Him would be safe because isn't that what it says in the Psalms? I was hoping that He would salvage my marriage. I was hoping that my prodigal would return. I was hoping He would bring me a godly mate or that He would give me a child. I was hoping, we were hoping, that He would fix this mess. We were hoping. 

So how did Jesus respond to these two? Well, notice how He did not respond. He didn't say, “Look, it's me. I'm not dead anymore! I'm alive. Like, it's really me. Cheer up!” What did He say? Verse 25: 

“How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Wasn't it necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 

That, by the way, was the same thing that the angels had said to the women when they went to the tomb. Verse 6 of chapter 24: 

“Remember how he spoke to you saying, 'It is necessary that the Son of man be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day'?” 

Taking these disappointed hopes, dashed disciples, back to the words of Jesus. So now when Jesus spoke to the disappointment and the dashed hope of these two disciples, where did he begin? He took them to the Word—and not to some psalm that you always read to comfort people when they're in distress. He took them to the Old Testament prophets. It’s not necessarily where I would think of starting to give comfort and encouragement to someone who is distraught and hurting. My mind wouldn't just naturally go to the Old Testament prophets in that moment.

But Jesus knew the Scripture was exactly what they needed, and He knew which Scriptures they needed. The Old Testament Scriptures made clear that it was necessary for Messiah to suffer before He was glorified. 

Little parenthesis here. If Jesus had to suffer before entering into His glory, how much more so is that true for us? First the cross; then the crown. First we die to self; then we live to God. 

But these disciples were having a hard time connecting the dots. They had studied Moses. They had studied the prophets. They could likely quote them to others. These early Jewish followers of Jesus knew their Bibles than most New Testament Christians know their Bibles. But it didn't fit together to them. 

So verse 27, “Beginning with Moses . . .” the Pentateuch. We're talking Leviticus and Deuteronomy. I mean, again, is that where you turn to explain how life makes sense to people? Tell them who Jesus is. Is that where you start? Well, that's the Scriptures Jesus and those disciples had. 

So beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures. 

Until Jesus came to them, as well as they knew these Scriptures. Until Jesus explained these Scriptures to them and shed light on these Scriptures, they didn't understand that those Old Testament prophecies and writings of Moses were about Jesus. Jesus explained it so they could understand that. 

It reminds me that you and I are dependent on the Spirit of Jesus, the living Word of God, to make the written Word understandable to us and to lead us to Christ through His Word. We can't do it. We don't see it. I know people who are very smart, much smarter than I. And people who know their Bible . . . you'll sometimes see some of them on some podcasts and TV shows. Some of them really know their Bibles, but they don't know Jesus because their eyes haven't been open. They haven't let the Holy Spirit point them to Jesus in this Book. It's possible to know and be familiar with the Scripture but miss the point of it all. It's possible for our Bibles to be marked up and highlighted, and you've written in the margins of your notetaking Bible, and you've memorized, and still to miss Jesus. 

Jesus had said at one point during His earthly ministry here to the Pharisees, John chapter 5: 

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. But you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. (vv. 39–40) 

Listen, if you know this Bible from left to right, front to back, inside and out, but you miss Jesus, you will miss life.

Let me just say a word here of caution because we've had a whole weekend where we have exalted His name and His Word above all things. We love the written Word of God. We treasure it. We trust it. We want to obey it. But we don't worship the written Word. We worship the One whose Word it is, and the One who reveals it to us. We worship Christ, the living Word of God. The Pharisees worshiped the scrolls. We worship the God who spoke these words, whose breath inspired these words, who gave them to us to reveal Himself to us. We worship Him—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Done with the parentheses there. 

When the disciples were confused and discouraged, it was the living Word that pointed them to the written Word. Jesus came alongside of them. He's the living Word. They don't recognize Him yet, but He pointed them to the written Word, and it's the written Word that pointed them to the living Word. That's the way the Word works in our lives. Look at verse 28. 

They came near the village where they were going, and he gave the impression that he was going farther. But they urged him, “Stay with us, because it's almost evening and now the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. It was as he reclined at the table with them that he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.” (vv. 28–30) 

We've seen Jesus do that at least a couple other times in the gospels: the feeding of the five thousand, at the Last Supper there with his closest disciples. He took it. He blessed it. He broke it, and He gave it to them. Verse 31: 

Then their eyes were opened. 

“I've recognized Him. It's Jesus. That's who we've been reading about. That's who we've studied. That's who we've walked with, who we've known, but now we behold Him." This is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit of God. He must open our eyes to see who Jesus is and to believe Him. 

And by the way, it's the same that is true of your friends and your family members and your neighbors and those people at work who don't know Jesus. You can read the Scripture to them. You can tell them about Christ and do that. But know that you can't open their eyes. You can't give them faith to behold and recognize and believe in Jesus. So you pray, “Lord, open the eyes of their heart as you have opened the eyes of my heart to see You in Your Word. 

We pray this for our children from the time they're little. You can't convert your children. You can't convert your teenager or your husband or your boss or anyone. Jesus has to open their eyes. That's the work of the Holy Spirit. You wonder how can they hear the gospel again and again and again, but they don't get it. Pray that their eyes would be open to see and to savor Him 

Well, that verse goes on to say: 

Then Jesus disappeared from their sight. They said to each other, “Weren't our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us?” (vv. 31–32)

So after Jesus left, these two disciples compared notes because your heart is burning in you. You can sense that, but the person walking with you can't sense that they realize that they had both been having the exact same experience as the living Word explained the written Word to them. They had both realized that the written Word was about the living Word who was right there with them and their hearts burned in them. 

Jeremiah 29, the prophet had a similar experience. He said, “His word was in my heart like a burning fire.” 

Even before they recognized Jesus, even before they knew who He was, the Spirit was quickening their hearts. The same Spirit was working in both of them, and what resulted was the sweet fellowship of burning hearts. Hearts being set aflame and quickened by the Holy Spirit of Christ. 

Do you know what it is? To have your heart burn within you as the Spirit of Jesus opens His Word to you and as He opened your eyes to behold Him in His Word? My prayer is that that has been your experience this weekend. As the Word has been opened, your heart has been quickened. It's burning within you. It's a fire within you. “Yes, I see. I love it. I worship You. Thank You, Jesus.” Your heart is burning in you. 

Now that's not always our experience as we read the Word of God. So we don't live on those moments. But thank God for the sweetness of those times when we can sense the burning work of God in our hearts, opening our eyes to behold Jesus. 

Something else I see here is the beauty and the power of the Word experienced in community with other believers. The two disciples were walking together when Jesus joined them. Their eyes were opened and their hearts were warmed, not in a classroom lecture, not listening to a podcast on their ear pods, but as they walked together, as they listened, as they listened to Jesus speak, as they sat with Him together, as they ate together, as they talked together with Jesus. 

Of course we meet with Him in the Word. When we're alone, those are sweet times. We need those times. We also need times when we're walking and talking together with others in your local church, with your mate, with your children. I want to encourage you as your heart has been warmed this weekend, talk with each other about it. 

Don't just get back. “The Cubs are playing this afternoon, and I'm going to be thinking about that in a while.” I don't know why I just popped in my mind right now, but I'm a fan. I hope they do well. I had to discipline myself during the service last night not to be looking at my phone whatever two nights ago to see who had won. A friend who knows we love them, she slipped down the aisle, and she leaned in and she said, “The Cubs won. That's great. Enjoy the Cubs or whoever you're cheering for. 

But, let's talk to each other about the things that really matter, the things that matter most. On the way home, at church tomorrow, when you get back to your mate. Now, be careful, those of you who've got a husband at home who has been taking care of your munchkins. Don't just dump everything on him that you heard all weekend long. Maybe take a chance to say, “Thank you, Honey, for what you did this weekend. How did it go? I love you. Thank you for serving.” Bless him, bless your kids, before you just start. 

But then as you have opportunity, talk with each other. How was God speaking in your heart this weekend? Do this when you have opportunity. And when a whole fellowship of believers is stirred by the Word of Christ and our hearts are set on fire, you know what we'll have? We'll have revival—revive our hearts. Not just us, but those who didn't come this weekend as they see the Word of God burning in our hearts. Well, verse 33:

That very hour [now we already know it's at the end of a long day, that very hour] they got up and returned to Jerusalem.

They couldn't call it a night. They had to go back and find their friends who were still discouraged and doubting, as far as they knew. They had to tell their friends what they had learned from the living Word about the written Word and from the written Word about the living Word, how the Word had changed everything, how their doubts had turned to faith, how their discouraged exhausted hearts had been set on fire, how the Word had changed their perspective, had changed their present circumstances, had changed their future, had changed everything! So verse 33: 

They found the Eleven and those with them gathered together . . .

There we have community again. You see a lot of that in this passage, the women who walked together, the disciples who stood together at the cross. The Christian life is not a solo journey. We need each other. 

Have you been blessed by these women who've been here teaching and sharing and in that panel and reciting Scripture? We do this together. Now, while these two disciples had been gone on this trip to Emmaus and back, the believers in Jerusalem, unbeknownst to those two disciples, had had their own encounter with the living Word. Verse 34: 

They said, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” [Peter. Christ had been making Himself known there in Jerusalem as well as to the Emmaus disciples. So now they're joining together and they're realizing they've all encountered the living Christ.] Then [the two Emmaus disciples] began to describe what had happened on the road and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. As they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood in their midst. He said to them, “Peace to you!” [He knew that their emotions were still all over the place.] They were startled and terrified . . . they were amazed and in disbelief because of their joy.” (vv. 34–37, 41) 

Do you ever feel like it's just all jumbled up together? You're startled, you're terrified, you're amazed, you're in disbelief, and it's all because of your joy. Your husband says, “You're crying because you're happy?” 

“Yes.” 

“I don't get it.” And once again, Jesus, the living Word, points them back to the written Word. Verse 44: 

He told them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures [they knew so well]. (vv. 44–45) 

And once again, the living Word, pointed them to the written Word, and the written Word pointed them back to Jesus, the living Word. Verse 46: 

He said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead the third day, and repentance for forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And look, I am sending you what my Father promised [the Word of God].” (vv. 46–49)

What was Jesus sending to them? What had the Father promised? Well, actually, it was a who—the Holy Spirit that Jesus would send to live in His disciples, to live in us who followed Jesus, to remind them of everything Jesus had said to them, to give them courage and power to go out and proclaim the gospel to the world and even to lay down their lives for Jesus. And that's how the Word, the living Word, and the written Word came to us. That's how we got here. The Holy Spirit is still doing that today through what is written. The God-breathed Word of God that points us to Jesus, the living Word. 

Let me just summarize. God's Word changes everything. In times of crisis and confusion, it brings clarity. We just heard in Psalm 119, the revelation of Your Words brings light. When we're discouraged, the Word of God brings comfort. It changes everything. 

Another summary observation, we are dependent on the Spirit of Jesus. Jesus, the living Word, to make the written Word understandable to us. That's why before you open this Book and begin to read and as you read and after you read, pray, “Holy Spirit, give me understanding. Help it make sense.” Otherwise, it's just another book. It's just ink on pages and a long one at that. 

The Holy Spirit opens our eyes to understand, opens our ears, opens our hearts to say, “Yes, Lord,” and shows us Jesus through this Word. Then as we walk with Christ and other believers, He comes among us by His Spirit, not just in our formal gatherings. You don't have to go to a convention or a conference like True Woman to meet with Jesus, to have his Word come to life in your heart. As we walk with Him, as we walk with each other, as you're riding back home with others from your church, as we walk, as we talk, as we eat, as we do life together, He is in our midst. 

As we receive His Word together, sometimes spoken through other believers to us, our hearts are set on fire and we become the fellowship of the burning hearts. And then having received and believed and been changed by His Word with hearts aflame, we're not going to be able to help ourselves. We're going to have to go out, as those Emmaus disciples said. “We have to go back to the friends and the disciples in Jerusalem. We have to tell them what we've experienced, what we've seen, what we've heard, what we see now with our eyes.” 

You're not going to be able to help yourself. You're going to have to go out and share with others what we have experienced, to share with them the written Word, to share with them the living Word that He has made known to us through His written Word. 

Coming to know God, being changed by Him through His Word, living is a lifelong pursuit. . . not just this weekend You can wave your little surrender flags anytime in here and that's great. I love that. But that's got to be the posture of our hearts all the time to know God's Word, to believe it, to obey it, to love it, to live it, and be changed by it and to share it with others. 

Again, if I could just give a little parenthetical exhortation here as we come to the close. There are women in this room, maybe I'm talking about you. There are many of them who know a ton about God's Word. You've been walking with Jesus for many years. Your Bible's all marked up. It's in your heart. You've been living it out. You've been loving it. But, who are you sharing it with? Are you just a stagnant pond, or are you letting those life-giving waters flow through you to others who need this?

Listen women, Titus 2 tells us older women . . . (You can decide if you're an older woman and if you're a younger woman.) Remember, you want to aspire to become an older woman like this. So this is for all of us. What are younger older women to do? We are to be teachers of what is good. Teachers of good things. What is more good, more beautiful, more wholesome, more helpful, more necessary, then the Word of Christ? Teachers, younger women need you older women to come alongside of them to show them, to teach them the Word, to show them how to live out the Word in their homes? 

I love that we had the older women sitting over here during this panel time. They were talking about the suffering, not that the younger women haven't suffered. But don't you find yourself when you listen to these women in their sixties and did we have anybody there seventies? I better not say that. But did you find yourself like they know. You listen. You can say these things when you're younger and they're true. But I'll tell you, when you've lived it a long time, people will hear you a little differently. 

These younger women need older women to come alongside of them when they're hurting, when they're confused, when they're addicted, when they're bored, to walk with them and minister the word of grace, the word of peace, the word of Christ to their hearts. 

My precious sisters in Christ . . . By the way, if you're not yet a sister in Christ, maybe you've been here all weekend, there could be many like this. You’ve known about Jesus, about the Bible, maybe you grew up in the church, maybe you're still in the church, but you're saying, “I don't have Jesus.” When we stand to pray in a few moments, can I just encourage you, if your heart is burning and Jesus is drawing you, would you find someone that you know knows Jesus, and say, “Would you pray for me? I want to have Jesus as my Messiah, my Lord, my Savior.” If you don't know somebody like that here, slip out to the prayer room. Maybe somebody there will pray with you. 

But as you go from this place, my prayer is that the living Word, Jesus Christ, will walk with you. May the written Word burn in your hearts. And may the Spirit of God compel you, as He did the Emmaus disciples, to share the wonder of the Word in your homes, your communities, your churches, your workplaces.