His Life is casting our shadows

​Something amazing took place after Jesus walked out of his tomb Easter morning.

He went for a walk.

Here's a guy who'd just risen from the dead. Not your every day miracle, right? And his instinct wasn't to call together the masses that had watched him die on a cross to flaunt his superpower - he didn't take time to show off to the universe the grandest I told you so moment ever - no, his instinct was to go for a walk.

On his walk, along a rural road, he encountered two of his disciples. The bible says these two guys were sad. Clearly, they were devastated by having watched their friend, Jesus, die on a cross. The bible says Jesus didn't make it known to them it was him - the risen Jesus - it says he simply started talking to them and comforting them with scriptures from the old testament.

These two guys eventually invited Jesus to dinner. And it was at dinner when Jesus made it known to them that it was indeed Him, the risen Jesus.

These two guys shared sort of an "I knew it" moment. They say to one another, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”

There's a line in the Patrick Mayberry song fire that says, His life is casting our shadows.

That line made me think of this post-Easter scene I described above. This Jesus, just risen from the dead, making his first order of business to walk alongside grieving friends. This risen Jesus, intent on burning light into the hearts of his friends who were clearly overwhelmed by darkness.

Too often, when we experience darkness, we spend our time trying to rearrange the order of things on the outside of our lives in some mad and desperate fight for light. We stay busy trying to put this puzzle together on the outside of our lives that we've convinced ourselves is the answer - it's got to be the puzzle - when the answer is actually to go for a walk.

When Jesus walked out of that grave and went looking for his friends who were sad - I think he was making a point that he wasn't an external show, he was an internal comfort.

When his friends' hearts burned inside with comfort and light in his presence, they were reminded that Jesus wasn't a season of light in their lives, he was the ultimate and forever source of it.

When Jesus walked out of that tomb and went looking to reconnect with friends, he was reminding us that when we feel locked in a tomb - he's wanting to go for a walk with us.

And maybe - maybe he's wanting us to go on a walk with someone else.