Have no fear of moving forward for if I am with you what is there to fear?

Day 125

Each day has become meaningful, even if nothing seems to happen beyond the routine; it is no longer ordinary, but full of possibility. I see that my daily interaction with You has led me to this place and time, where potential speaks from and into every direction: whether investing in system changes or having the ‘system’ understanding revealed in some way each day, or a closer walk with the One who is delighted to be with me and reveal Himself. That alone has encouraged me to move ahead with each thing presented and has opened my heart to any possibility You may have for me.

I may not be coherent, but I am grateful for each day, to see the possibilities within each unfold, to see these interact with the ones I care for…the greatest of these being the trust You have developed in my life by Your words.

It has always been this way: those I walk with begin to have a fire in their hearts for My presence and will leave all to be with Me. There is joy, a revelation of all things not understood, and a presence most would not leave if they knew the truth. You have sensed this too, and this is your heart: to know, understand, and be with Me. There is no other joy, no other task to be addressed, no other thing to be doing. And for you this will be unending, for this is the Kingdom.

I know of your concern for your wife and for your life together moving forward. As with Me, there is a life of trust with her, one which requires you to trust the same relationship with her that I have with you. Your concerns of work and support are not different than hers, yet I can address both of you at the level of peace you need: have no fear of moving forward as you are, for if I am with you what is there to fear? When we are together can there be anything else? What is there to do beyond that which we are? As I have led in the past so I will lead in the future; for there is nothing but the present for us when we are together.

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On the Road to Emmaus

Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.

He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

“What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

– Luke 24.13-35