WHAT THINGS? | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1881

"WHAT THINGS?"

WHEN the two disciples going toward Emmaus were joined by a countryman going the same way, he asked the subject of their conversation, "as ye walk and are sad." Cleopas asked him if he did not know what things had come to pass. "What things?" he said. He wanted them to rehearse them. They had need to know for all time, that Jesus is interested in all that his disciples deem important. Fresh from the conflict that ended on the cross, the first work is to ask their burdened hearts to tell him their trouble. Not that he did not know it already. It was better for them to define it. Some troubles will disappear upon our looking into them. Others, as we define them, give to us a meaning we never saw before. Part of the time taken in the short journey was employed by them, at his request, in telling their grief to him. Then he opened to them the Scriptures. That wonderful sermon had a condition to it; it was that they should tell him their trouble. We have no need to wait for the service at the church, nor till we can go to our knees in our closet, to be able to tell him "what things" have troubled us. He will stand beside us at our work, or walk beside us as he did with them, or sit by our weary pillow; and if we but try to tell him, his answer will make our heart glow within us.—Golden Censer.