and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Jesus wants us to believe. He knows that we all face challenges and obstacles faith. Thomas has a hard time believing that Jesus is risen from the dead and sometimes so do we. Sometimes we don't see him working in our own lives even when we hear about others seeing him. This can make us even more reluctant to believe.
Let us be built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. Thomas receives the personal encounter with Jesus that he requires and in so doing reveals to people of every age that Jesus does not abandon them, that he wants them to believe, and that he will provide the personal encounter that each person needs in order to come to faith in him. Somehow the doubt of Thomas is transformed into a greater blessing to us than the faith of the other apostles. An apparent oversight on the part of Jesus combines with an apparent failing on the part of Thomas to somehow become a great revelation of the resurrection.
Jesus is building us into one structure as a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit. If we feel isolated we can be reassured that he himself wants to hold us together as one household of God. He does not leave Thomas isolated from the others. He builds them together with himself as the capstone. He wants to build us together in the same way.
United as one in our faith in the risen LORD our mission is clear.
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.
What good news?
“My Lord and my God!”
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