Entering Your Glory

Luke 24:13-26

Early Sunday morning, the same day Jesus resurrected from the dead , two of Jesus’ followers were walking to the village of Emmaus seven miles from Jerusalem.

They walked seemingly wearily, tired, disappointed, heavy-heated, frustrated, angry and stressed.

And the reason why they were sad is because they passionately followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem under the motivation that he was going to rescue Israel from the tyrant hands of the Romans.

They followed Jesus with admirable passion to the extent they abandoned their careers, the comfort of their homes, family, friends, relatives and their skill sets.

  

They were no doubt in their hearts that Jesus was going to rescue Israel and that they were going to be direct benefactors in this rescue.

They understood that together with Jesus their names were to go down in Israel’s books of history, and that their personalities were to forever remain towering figures through out the annals of history.

The aforementioned prospects indeed and in fact become promise and dreams embedded and deeply rooted in Jesus.

However there was a paradigm shift the moment Jesus arrived in Jerusalem.

He was arrested, crucified and he died.

When he died it so seems that the followers of Jesus most especially the two followers who were walking to the village of Emmaus seven miles from Jerusalem were enormously crest-fallen.

They were bitterly disappointed and frustrated to the extent that they even considered the promise and the dream plus the hope of glory they held in Jesus for themselves dead and buried along with Jesus.

As they walked along they were talking about everything that had happened and amidst their exchange they probably and without a doubt considered their following Jesus as an effort in vain, They contemplated following Jesus as the greatest mistake of their lives.

Because now they were seven miles away from Jerusalem having forsaken all for Jesus’ sake and it seems as if everything they hoped to accomplish with Jesus has died with Jesus.

They are trying to plan their next move and they do not know where to begin, because suddenly everything is strange and foreign, they cant go back to Galilee just as of yet because of the shame of facing the people in Galilee who will forthrightly remind them that they followed a fraud and a venture that was unrealistic.

They murmur between themselves that may be they should have stayed back in Galilee and not follow Jesus to Jerusalem even though his show of the power of God was so hard to resist.

May be you are like these two followers of Jesus in this season of your life, you sought God, he appeared unto you, and he promised you his glory if you shall keep the faith.

But suddenly it seems as if your hope and promises in God is dead and you do not see it coming to pass because you have been betrayed by the same people with whom you shared your love with.

 You are tired, puzzled, confused, and frustrated and contemplating walking away from God.

 But hold on….hold on and realize that Jesus is called the Christ-meaning the anointed one and he argues in Luke 24-26”wasn’t  it clearly predicted that the messiah(anointed one) would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?”

Consequently the reason why you suffering from heart aches, disappointments, and frustrations after having followed the instructions of God in the name of Jesus is because you are being ushered into your place of glory as prepared for you by the Lord God before the foundation of the heavens and the earth.

Before you landed on the earth, God prepared for you a special place of Glory, and in order for you to enter this glory you have to suffer these things: betrayal, rejection, disappointments, frustrations, and heart aches.

  

And the aforementioned things are divinely orchestrated to usher you into your place of glory. Jesus was ushered into his place of Glory by the pain of crucifixion and death.

 My friends you are anointed and the evidence is in the injustices that you are dealing with after obeying the spirit of God.

But the pain is only working for your good because every now and then you feel some air of disappointment after obeying God its only but a sign that you entering your glory.

Every one who has gone past you while you were obeying God, God will see to it that you go past them seven miles further.

Whatever you have lost in your obedience to God, God will see to it that you recover back seven times better in the mighty name of Jesus.

Emmaus represents failure, defeat, disappointment, sadness, and frustration but Jerusalem represents glory hence it took a revelation for the two followers of Jesus to leave Emmaus back to Jerusalem.

The scripture stipulates that while the two disciples were nearing Emmaus and the end of their journey, Jesus began to slowly reveal himself to them.

 Conversely Jesus will not let nor allow your life to end in shame, disappointment, defeat, heart aches, and frustration but he will see to it that you end up in victory, glory and honor. 

Even if you decide to go in the direction of shame and defeat, he will still find you and alter your course back to the highway of victory, glory, and honor.