The promises of Christ's work of redemption include both His suffering as God's Lamb to take away our sin, and His great reign as Messiah and the restoration of the physical creation.
But the Lord's people often pick and choose what we want to believe.
The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had grasped hold of the glorious reign of Christ, but disregarded the promises of His suffering in our place and for our sins.
Thus, these two disciples were dissatisfied with the redemption Jesus had given them. They had seen the fulfillment of Christ as the dying lamb for us, but they had disregarded it, and counted it as a failure.
Some believers are still dissatisfied with Redemption, still groaning in our bodies with weakness, pain, sorrow, and indwelling sin.
But Christ provided to those disciples the solution to disappointment with the redemption He provided us.
He rebuked them for cherry-picking the promises about Himself, and then He urged them to consider all that the Scriptures had said concerning Him.
The cure for disappointment with our redemption is to look upon Christ, to consider all that the Scriptures say about Him!
We ought to gaze upon Jesus as He is revealed in Scripture, and find all our satisfaction in what He has done for us, and what He has promised He will do one day.
He laid aside His glory, and was incarnate in our flesh. He offered Himself as God's Lamb, and took away our sins upon Himself on the cross. He conquered death at Calvary, and rose from the grave for us.
Our true satisfaction in our redemption wrought by Christ is found in the beauty of the Savior!
One day soon, we will receive the rest of what is promised to us!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
