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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Devotional: June 30th

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Luke 24:36-53

The Lord could have ascended to heaven at the moment of His resurrection. But He wanted to meet His beloved disciples again (John 16:22); He wanted to give them proof that He was not only alive but that He would remain a Man for ever, the same Lord Jesus they had known, followed and served down here. Dear fellow-believers, He whom we will see in heaven is not only a "spirit" nor is He a stranger to our hearts. He is the Lord Jesus of the gospels, the Son of man whom Luk has presented to us, the tender Saviour whom we have learned on earth to know and love.

"Must", "ought not", "it behoved" (vv. 7, 26, 44, 46). The whole counsel of God had to be accomplished in the sufferings of Christ, but also in His glories.

And it was Bethany that the Lord Jesus chose as the place where He would go from His own. Figuratively He was thereby establishing them for the time of His absence on new ground, "outside" the Jewish system (v. 50); that is the ground of new life and communion (John 12:1. . .).

The Lord’s last word is a promise (v. 49), His last movement of the hands a blessing (v. 50). He has gone away but the hearts of His disciples overflowed with joy and praise. Objects of the same love, let us too worship our God, our Father, and let us rejoice in our perfect Saviour.

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