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NOT A SLOW HEART
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
Luke 24:13-27

Luke 16:19-31

 

“…O fools, and slow of heart to believe

all that the prophets have spoken…”

 

NOT A SLOW HEART
 
The Lord Jesus, before His death, repeatedly taught His disciples that He would rise from the dead on the third day. “From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day” (Matt 16:21; cf. also Matt 17:23; 20:19).
 
Yet it is a sad fact that those same disciples repeatedly disbelieved the reports of their Lord’s resurrection. They heard the testimony of Mary Magdalene, but “they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not” (Mark 16:11). They heard the testimony of the two who had gone “into the country,” but again, “neither believed they them” (Mark 16:12-13). Indeed, when “Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them… told these things unto the apostles… their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not” (Luke 24:10-11).
 
What was the cause of their incredulity? The Lord identifies it in His words to the two walking to Emmaus: they were “slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken” (Luke 24:25). Mark well, God expects us to believe His Word; all of it! Ah, it is fashionable in these days to deny biblical revelation, simply because it seems outlandish to our modern sensibilities. Even professing Christians have taken to turning up their noses at the miracles recorded in Scripture, employing various tricks of exegetical sleight-of-hand to vanish the offending passages from view.
 
The “enlightened” mind demands “evidence” ‒ but the plain truth is, if we do not believe God’s Word, no amount of “empirical evidence” can substitute for faith. Was it not said in the parable to the rich man in his torments, regarding his brethren, “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead” (Luke 16:31)?
 
THOUGHT: “Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe” (John 4:48) ‒ is this a description of me?

PRAYER: O Father, help me to believe Thy Word!

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