For a few days between the crucifixion and the resurrection, the disciples’ faith must have been sorely tested. All that they had seen and heard which had encouraged their belief that Jesus was the Messiah seemed to come crashing down to nothing. He was dead. As the two on the road back to Emmaus put it, “we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel” (Lk 24:21). Then in a matter of hours, it was built up again as Jesus appeared and set about explaining “the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures,” (Lk 24:27 & 32) and “the things written in the law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms” (Lk. 24:44). They were given a clear window into the plan of God that would stand them in good stead. No challenge would ever be as great as that of those few dark days. And we who are called to “walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7) must know that too. That is why God has given us the record of those who learned to “see” through the darkness, so that we might not give up hope.