Feeling the Truth

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?"
Luke 24:32 New International Version (emphasis added)

In my opinion, emotions are something not to be trusted. They cause us to say and do things we normally wouldn’t. Emotions cloud our reason and often lead us to circumstances that could have been avoided.

In this particular verse, feelings are at work in an unusual way. I don’t think these men had heartburn, I think that they had a physical rush and a mental awareness when truth was proclaimed by the embodiment of truth himself (a.k.a. Jesus). And, maybe that is the way truth reaches out to us. It does not encompass the mind alone, but our bodies too. Truth affects everything in us, our entire being.

My closest experience to theirs in this verse is when I “became aware of” who Christ is. I felt like my heart was racing. My mind was incredibly aware and I was shocked that I, a man of reason, was physically feeling so much over a revelation about Jesus. I admit that it has been an ongoing revelation, for I still get short of breath and become more aware of this ever-growing Jesus. I suppose that I am still feeling the truth.