SPRING FORTH NOW 2025

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

Luke 24:22-26

Too often, like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we look for answers in the evidence of absence rather than the presence of truth. They stood confused at an empty tomb, disheartened because they expected to see Jesus in the same form they had lost Him, not realizing the resurrection had shifted their perception. This is what it means to Look In All The Wrong Places—when we search for God only in the familiar and fail to discern Him in the transformation. Jesus gently rebukes them for missing what had already been foretold, showing that the Hidden Manna—the sustaining revelation—is not in what we see, but in what we believe and understand through faith. The Word and the prophetic witness had prepared them, but their hearts were slow to digest it. Today, we are reminded to seek God not just in the visible miracles but in the quiet unfolding of His promises. Hidden Manna feeds those who trust His plan even when the path is unclear, for Christ reveals Himself not always in the spectacular, but in the sacred stillness of Scripture and faith.