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God is there.
True, this poem may seem a bit sappy and overly simplistic, but the message of extending
hospitality, of loving another as a brother or sister, of sharing both hope and sorrow, and of
inviting in the stranger in our midst do seem appropriate. For in that moment and in that
extension of Christian grace is our Lord Jesus to be found. The road to Emmaus may lead away
from Jerusalem, but it is to that place and to those goings on that we as believers return. All of
Jesus’ earthly ministry led him to Jerusalem for “it was necessary that the Messiah should suffer
these things and then enter into his glory.” The question for us then is “Do we take that road out
of Jerusalem and encounter the risen and ever-living Christ with us, or do we get so caught up in
our own journey that we fail to meet the stranger in our midst?”
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