His Scars Are Still There

What happens next is strange.
Jesus doesn’t perform a miracle.
He shows them His wounds.

“Touch me and see. A ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

Let that sink in:
The Resurrection didn’t erase the trauma of the cross.
It transformed it.

There’s something deeply human — and deeply divine — about that.
The Christ doesn’t come back flawless.
He comes back whole.

And wholeness includes the scars.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your story can be redeemed…
If you’ve ever felt ashamed of what your life has carried…
This is the Gospel:
You are not disqualified.

He Eats Fish — Because the Resurrection Is Real

In the next moment, Jesus does something almost comic:
He asks if there’s anything to eat.

They give him fish.

He eats in front of them — not out of hunger, but as if to say:
“I’m real. I’m here. And I’m still at your table.”

The sacred is not floating above you in cosmic silence.
The sacred sits down with you.

In your kitchen.
In your grief.
In your joy.

The resurrection doesn’t lift us out of the body.
It brings God into the body, and into every space we thought was too ordinary — or too broken — to be holy.

Besides Scriptures, He Opens Minds

The final scene in the passage says this:

“He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.”

Notice: He didn’t give them more rules.
He didn’t hand out a theology textbook.

He gave them the one thing most of us ache for:
clarity.

Not the kind you get from scrolling.
Not the kind that numbs or distracts.

But the kind of clarity that says: “You are part of a story bigger than your mistakes.”

That kind of clarity?
It gives birth to mission.

You Are a Witness

Luke ends with a sentence that haunts me:

“You are witnesses of these things.”

Not experts.
Not spectators.
Witnesses.

In other words, your life — your body, your voice, your decisions — are how someone else might glimpse the Risen Christ.

You don’t need to have it all together.
You don’t need to be fearless.
But if you’ve encountered healing, even just a little —
you’ve seen enough to share.

So What Now?

Maybe you’re in a room like theirs:
Confused. Wounded. Unsure what to believe.

If so, maybe the Christ you need is not the one floating in heaven —
but the one standing in your midst, scars and all, saying:
“Peace be with you.”

Credits:
Written by Theoloscience. Refined with the aid of digital tools. A reflection at the crossroads of Scripture, psychology, and human experience.