John 20:29
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Today's Thought: Unbelief hinders us from seeing and knowing who our God really is.
The smart new science professor at the college scarcely bothered to conceal the fact that he was an agnostic, if not an atheist. “Unless you shake off old-fashioned views and act for yourself,” he kept telling his classes, “the world will leave you behind. Putting your faith in God may be all right, but you can’t stop there. Take rain-making. When the farmers prayed for rain, what did they get? The Dust Bowl. Now all they do is to send up a plane, drop some chemicals on a cloud, and it rains. No question about that, is there?” To the professor’s surprise, a drawling farm boy spoke up. “Sure, there’s a question. Who furnishes the cloud?” (Encyclopedia of 15,000 Illustrations - 13834).
Thomas doubted the reports on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was a man of physical evidence, as being the concrete expression of his belief system. In answering Thomas's unbelief, Jesus showed Himself. As much as faith is believing the unseen, it is the expression of our knowledge of who the Lord is. Faith is always the equivalence of how much and how intimate our knowledge of Jesus Christ. Only those who knows their Lord can have a strong faith in Him.
Christians, if you have doubts on Jesus Christ, on His promises, you should cultivate your trust in Him by knowing Him. A closer walk with Jesus is the only for us to dwell in His promises, and grow our faith in Him. Sadly, there are other Christians who only know Him in the sphere of the salvation of their souls, nothing more.
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