Luke 24:13-35 / Emmaus Road: Who Knows What Happened?

Luke 24:13-35
Preaching from this text, Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) said:

"They forgot the Scriptures; they did not think of that great source of hope.  Their eyes were dimmed with tears, so that they did not see what was plain before them.  How many a precious text have you and I read again and again without perceiving its joyful meaning, because our minds have been clouded with despondency!  We take the telescope, and try to look into heavenly things, and we breathe upon the glass with the hot breath of our anxiety till we cannot see anything; and then we conclude that there is nothing to be seen.  Do you not think, beloved, you that are depressed and sorrowing to-day, that if you thought more of the promises revealed in God’s Word, you would soon see things differently, and would rise out of your downcast condition?  You put your Bibles away, and read nothing but the roll of your troubles."

C. H. Spurgeon, “Folly of Unbelief,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 33 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1887), 483–484.