“But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem us…”
Luke 24:21
Follower of Jesus: there was once a time when Jesus’s followers referred to hope as something they used to have—hope had changed from a present reality to something spoken in the past tense. They once were hoping, they used to be hoping. But now hope was gone… or so they thought.
They were talking to Jesus (and didn’t realize it).
They were walking with Jesus (and didn’t realize it).
They were close to Jesus (and didn’t realize it).
How did the story end? Well, decades after it happened, a historian named Luke included this in his records and even named one of them by name. Why did he name him by name? Because the people Luke wrote to decades later would know who he was. Why would they know who he was decades later?
Because what was a short season of hopelessness, decades earlier, had in a gracious instant turned into a lifetime of hope.
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