The Emmaus Road Feast

This morning I was reading the events following Christ's resurrection in Luke 24 and was thinking about the interaction between Christ and the men going from Jerusalem to Emmaus. In verse 27, the spiritual feast begins,

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

Later the men urge this stranger on the road to Emmaus to stay with them. When Christ came and broke bread and blessed the bread it was then that their eyes were opened. It is the following verse that I found compelling.

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?"

Here on the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus these men had dined on a spiritual feast and had not appreciated its delicacies until much later. 'Were not our hearts burning within us' should be my heart cry when I sit and dine at the dinner table with Christ and enjoy the feast from His word. However, it is not often that I can say this. Many times the words of the page just tumble across my brow and barely light upon my soul. Perhaps they catch there unknowingly to me and are set to be harvested later by the Holy Spirit, I can only entrust that work to His holy hands. I know that my God is faithful. All I know is that I wish I had a deeper and closer walk with Him and that I desire to honor Him in all I do and say.