4.18.23 - John 20:25
Is there a place where you feel your belief has worn thin? Do you think your awe of the Creator has suffered in the same way?
So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
In spite of his personal relationship with Jesus, in spite of everything he experienced alongside the other disciples, Thomas was not exercising his awe. He had a fundamental wavering of the wisdom that comes from believing the Creator has power over death.
Nevertheless, Jesus presented his hands and side as a reminder to Thomas, "I am who I say I am."
Not only that it was Jesus, returned from the dead, but also that he is true to his word. Thomas could trust him.
Had Thomas remembered his awe of Christ during their time together, had he the wisdom to trust his relationship with Jesus, maybe he would have avoided his centuries-long nickname "Doubting Thomas."
And perhaps the antithesis of awe isn't mundanity, but disbelief.
Is there a place where you feel your belief has worn thin? Do you think your awe of the Creator has suffered in the same way?
--Katelin Champion
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