Their eyes were holden that they should
not know him.
Luke 24:16 (KJV)
Their eyes were opened.
Luke 24:31 (KJV)
There is much precious significance in this. The Lord is often present
in our lives in things that we do not dream possess any significance. We are
asking God about something which needs His mighty working, and the very
instrument by which He is to work is by our side, perhaps for weeks and months
and years all unrecognized, until suddenly, some day it grows luminous and
glorious with the very presence of the Lord, and becomes the mighty instrument
of His victorious working. He loves to show His hand through the
unexpected. Often he keeps us from
seeing His way until just before He opens it, and then, immediately that it is
unfolded, we find that He was walking by our side in the very thing, long
before we even suspected its meaning. –A.B. Simpson
