As the sailor locates his position on the sea by ‘shooting’ the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position. AW Tozer

Lukas 24:13- 34

Op dieselfde dag was twee van hulle op pad na ’n dorpie met die naam Emmaus, twaalf kilometer van Jerusalem af. v1 Ons het so gehoop dat dit Hy is wat Israel sou verlos. v21 Van Jerusalem tot Emmaus... maar hulle oë is verhinder om Hom te herken. v16

Wanneer ons na Emmaus loop Praat oor God, nie met God nie. Leef sonder hoop, in die verlede. Lewe met toe oë. Glo nie die Here is hier nie. Herken nie die Here se werke in my lewe nie. Glo net in die fisiesie wêreld.

God and the spiritual world are real. We can reckon upon them with as much assurance as we reckon upon the familiar world around us. Spiritual things are there (or rather we should say here ) inviting our attention and challenging our trust. Our trouble is that we have established bad thought habits. We habitually think of the visible world as real and doubt the reality of any other. We do not deny the existence of the spiritual world but we doubt that it is real in the accepted meaning of the word. The world of sense intrudes upon our attention day and night for the whole of our lifetime. It is clamorous, insistent and self- demonstrating. It does not appeal to our faith; it is here, assaulting our five senses, demanding to be accepted as real and final. But sin has so clouded the lenses of our hearts that we cannot see that other reality, the City of God, shining around us. The world of sense triumphs. The visible becomes the enemy of the invisible; the temporal, of the eternal. That is the curse inherited by every member of Adam's tragic race. At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian's faith is unseen reality. AW Tozer

Ons swaarkry in hierdie lewe is maar gering en gaan verby, maar dit loop vir ons uit op ’n heerlikheid wat alles verreweg oortref en wat ewig bly. Ons oog is nie op die sigbare dinge gerig nie, maar op die onsigbare; want die sigbare dinge is tydelik, maar die onsigbare ewig. 2 Korintiërs 4:17-18

“Open the eyes of my heart” The soul has eyes with which to see and ears with which to hear. Feeble they may be from long disuse, but by the life-giving touch of Christ alive now and capable of sharpest sight and most sensitive hearing. AW Tozer

Julle is immers weergebore … 1 Petrus 1:23 “Luister, Israel, die Here is ons God, Hy is die enigste Here. Daarom moet jy die Here jou God liefhê met hart en siel, met al jou krag. Deut 6:4- 5

The very young Rembrandt was drawn to the melodrama of the baroque, using dramatic lighting effects to re-create the event. As Rembrandt matured, his highly charged interpretation of the story gave way to a very different sense of awe, a deeper, radically personal awakening, a subtle awareness reflected in the eye of one of the disciples. At the very instant of the disciple’s recognition a servant offers a plate and appears to see nothing at all remarkable. Rembrandt’s maturation serves as a parable of our own posture toward such biblical accounts. For most of us every act of God, every revelatory experience, comes in the form of worldly occurrences that can be read in naturalistic terms. We realize that our most profound spiritual convictions can be interpreted as intense psychological states. Faith knows that there is infinitely more to existence and the reality of God than our fleshly eyes can perceive, but faith -- a living by what cannot be seen -- is the only way to know this. Ronald Goetz

Die pad na Jerusalem toe Daarna het Hy by Moses en al die profete begin en al die Skrifuitsprake wat op Hom betrekking het, vir hulle uitgelê. v27 Terwyl Hy saam met hulle aan tafel was, neem Hy die brood, vra die seën, breek dit en gee dit vir hulle. Toe gaan hulle oë oop, en hulle het Hom herken, maar Hy het uit hulle gesig verdwyn. v30-31

Hulle sê toe vir mekaar: “Het ons hart nie warm geword toe Hy op die pad met ons gepraat en vir ons die Skrif uitgelê het nie?” v32