Thought of the Day 07.17.09

I have a new favorite passage in the Bible; one that has brought me great frustration and even greater joy by forcing me to rethink everything I thought I knew about the Book. At the end of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is walking incognito with His disciples on the road to Emmaus and winds up delivering a sermon to them. Luke writes, “Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.” (Luke 24:27)

The importance of this verse is woefully easy to miss. In simple terms, it asserts that everything in the Old Testament is understood correctly only when it is seen as pointing toward Jesus. Far from being a set of stories that teach us how to live right, the Bible is actually a thousand floodlights whose sole purpose is to display the glory of the Son of God.

According to this verse, every Bible story ends with the same message: Isn’t Jesus amazing? And any telling of those stories which doesn’t end there misleads us and robs our Savior of His due regard.