The risen Jesus walks unrecognised with two sad disciples.
The story
On resurrection day two disciples walk away from Jerusalem with broken hopes. A stranger joins them and opens the scriptures concerning Himself. At the breaking of bread their eyes are opened: it is the Lord.
What it teaches
The risen Christ draws near in our disappointment and makes our hearts burn within us.
In the Scriptures
And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. Luke 24:15 · KJV
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:27 · KJV
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? Luke 24:32 · KJV