Coming Home



To be a disciple of Jesus
Christ

Is to be a
“learner”

Most of my Christian experience has
been

Learning about Him

Trying to copy Him as much as
possible

Knowing I could never really do
that

But making an effort any
way



It has been an uphill, downhill
trek

Now, my experience is somewhat like
that

Of His disciples who met the risen
Christ

On the road to
Emmaus



They didn’t recognize Him in His
resurrection life

Until they sat down and ate with
Him

Their eyes were opened to see Who it
was

They had been walking and talking
with



The Resurrected
Christ!

The promised
Messiah

The New Creation
Man

The perfect blend of God and
man



This is the
quality of life seeded in

Our earth bodies
now

The new quality of life
created

When God raised His Son from
death



We don’t really recognize His abiding
presence

Until we stop working to be like Him
and just

Sit down and rest with
Him

And eat with
Him



Partaking of new creation food as
we

Experience Him

In the only quality of life Has to
give us now

Resurrection life!



He died to put an end to a species of
humanity

That was raw-naked vulnerable to sin
and death

That breed is under a recall order
now



The death of Christ was not a
punishment for sin

It was the beginning of the end of


Humanity vulnerableto sin



We have been walking with
Him

On the road to
Emmaus

(Emmaus means,
“half-way”)

Half way to our final
destination:

The full revelation of Christ
resurrected

In us!



The revelation of that
reality

Comes as much and as often as we can
bear it

Without stripping us of the honor of
being a person

As He is a
Person



The revelation of Christ resurrected
in us

Literally scares the hell out of
us

And opens our eyes to
see

He didn’t sacrifice Himself just to
take us up to heaven

He brought heaven down to
earth



He made heaven His Home in us!



Love,

Joan

11/15/07