Thursday Reading: John 20:26-29
Key Verse: John 20:28
28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God!
Devotion:
What does it take for you to say “My Lord and my God!” (and I am not talking about taking the Lord’s name in vain!) When things are going our way in our lives we tend to drift along with a bit of a relaxed attitude to life which is most often looked upon as you being quite content with life. Whilst sometimes I wish that I could always be at that sort of state to be able to be relaxed in life I fear that that would open my life up to too much temptation. God knows what each one of us need to be able to keep strong in our faith and to trust in Him.
Sometimes that I going to take the form of a loved one getting into deep water where you will have to take a strong stand and do whatever it takes to support them. Other times it may well be you getting into deep water just so that God can focus your own mind again. And then there are those precious moments when the Lord comes forward and says “reach out your hand” and touch me to see that I am real! For our Lord to be the one who stands there and asks us to reach out to Him so that we can see that He is real means that He is the one that has loved us from the beginning and He is the one who is always standing by and repeating “I love you” to deaf ears.
Thomas had so many doubts that had reached a point where he would not believe unless he was able to see things with his own eyes. Imagine what chaos the world would be in in we all had to see everything with our own eyes before we would believe! God wants us to be believe just because He has told us the truth. If we are able to accept His Word as the truth, the absolute truth, and keep all of it in our hearts, then He knows that He has a person who is showing faith. It is when we try to take things into our own hands that we find out that we lack that faith because we cannot see how it can be possible through the corrupted eyes that we are looking from. God wants us to be able to open our eyes to His truth and to accept it as that – the truth… just reach out and touch His Word…
Points to Ponder:
Does your faith ever falter?
How much do you depend on God’s Word for?