Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 24:26-28

"Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were going: and he made as though he would go further." — Luke 24:26-28 (ASV)

And to enter into his glory and beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

For Christ never forces his company upon anyone; and if we are willing to let him go, he will go. Nor will he return until we are heartily sick of having treated him coldly. When we can no longer bear the absence of Christ, then he will quickly return to us.

There is an instance of this in the life of Christmas Evans, which impressed me very much when I read it. Sandemanianism had spread greatly through Wales, and he had been very busy attacking it; but it seemed as if, in doing so, his sermons had lost all their former power and unction, and his own soul also grew very dry and barren, and he had little or no fellowship with Christ.

He said that, at last, his soul grew utterly weary of being absent from his Lord and he could not endure it any longer, but felt that he must once again enjoy communion with his Lord and experience the power of the Holy Spirit in his preaching. So he stopped at the foot of Cader Idris and spent some three hours in an intense agony of prayer; and the result was that, when he next preached, he did so with all the unction and power which had formerly rested upon him.

He had grown weary of the absence of Christ, and therefore Christ returned to him. O brothers, if Christ acts as if he would go further, do not let him go, but hold him fast!