A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY

🌷🌷🌷 August 24🌷🌷🌷

“…Jesus …shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days” (Acts 1:1-3)

The Lord Jesus Christ appeared to His disciples ten times in forty days after His resurrection; five times on the Easter day and five times from the second day of His resurrection till the 40th day, the day of His ascension. Our Lord never appeared even once to those who did not believe in Him. Each time He appeared only to His disciples. When He was on the cross, many people mocked Him saying, “…let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him” (Matt. 27:42). But after His resurrection He did not show Himself to any of those people. This shows that this wonderful power of resurrection is meant only for those who accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and become righteous in His sight for eternity by the very same power according to Rom. 4:24,25. Through every appearance He reveals to us the great secret of appropriating and enjoying this death-conquering power which can make us more than conquerors. God appeared ten times to Abraham in about 40 years to reveal to him the secret of divine friendship. In three places in the Scriptures, in 2 Chro. 20:7, Isa. 41:8 and James 2:23,
Abraham is called the friend of God. Through the ten appearances of God to Abraham, we see that there are ten steps to friendship with God. Similarly through the ten appearances of the Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples after His resurrection, we have a tenfold secret of experiencing and enjoying the great power of His resurrection for all our needs. By this power, the hope that one day we shall see our Lord face to face and shall be like Him, is quickened in us.