Many politicians in some respects are so good at arousing their audiences’ emotions that the people will stand up and vote for them as they listen to those campaign speeches. These natural-born politician employs various strategies in order to catch the people’s attention or even manipulate his audience at his disposal. We as the audience thus lose our self-awareness and follow them blindly wherever they go as if we were they personal bodyguards.

This is not he case with our Lord Jesus who never used persuasive speeches or human eloquence to convert non-believers or convince his followers. Instead, he taught his audience with truth which is God’s word. When he called Peter and his brother Andrew to be his disciples, he simply said to them, “Come, follow me and I will mak you fishers of men.” Both brothers immediately left their fishing nets and followed Jesus to the end of their lives.

On another occasion when Jesus was resurrected and appeared to two of his followers on the way to Emmaus discussing how Jesus was crucified, he joined them talking about what had happened in Jerusalem but he kept himself from being recognized. Later, the two men found out that they were talking with Jesus the Lord himself, they said to 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)

When will our hearts burn within us as the two disciples said to each other, it is the time when He talk to us and reveal his love and truth to us.