Lectionary readings for Sunday 26th April 2020 – Easter 3 (Year A)

• Acts 2:14a, 36-41
• Ps 116:1-4, 12-19
• 1 Pt 1:17-23
• Lk 24: 13-35

Today’s reflection is based upon our lectionary reading from Luke where we are introduced to two men travelling the road to Emmaus. During their journey, they encounter Jesus who comes up to them and begins to walk with them.

As we journey with them, we soon realise that these men are dejected, despondent with the recent events of the crucifixion of their Messiah. Interestingly though, as Jesus walks with them, we are told that these men were kept from recognising him.

In their time of sorrow, lost in their grief for the death of their Messiah and their hope for a kingly Saviour, they failed to recognise that Jesus, this very Messiah, was indeed walking alongside them.

In our times of trial, times when we feel despondent, we too can fall into the trap of failing to realise that Jesus is walking with us. Often it is during the most difficult times when God opens our eyes to see His hand in our lives.

In Matthew 28:20, Jesus comforts his disciples, who he has just commissioned to go out into the world, with the words “I am with you always, to the end of the age”.

What a timely reminder to us also that God is always with us, always walks with us during our journey through life, on our own roads to Emmaus.

The following song You will never walk alone by Point of Grace is a wonderful example of this.