The story of Doubting Thomas is an analogy to everyone who has struggled with faith in a God they cannot see. We would all like to be able to see Christ in the flesh and to touch his wounds, so that we could be certain of our beliefs.
But our wish is a false one. Appearances can be deceiving; our eyes and ears are not trustworthy. Many an innocent man has gone to prison because an eyewitness was positive they had seen him commit a crime. Magicians make a living by defrauding our eyes and ears.
It is true, in a logical sense, that being able to see a wounded person who says he is Christ would make it more probable that Christ was the son of God, and that he rose from the dead. But we cannot know God by logic. There is nothing in all the facts gathered by mankind, considered by all the great minds that have lived, that can prove or disprove the existence of God or the life and miracle of Jesus Christ. God cannot be known by logic. Probability has no function in the realm of religious belief.
Knowing God and believing in Him is a matter of faith. We know God and grow towards him like a tulip bulb, deep in the earth, grows towards a sun it cannot see or feel, in a kind of faith that the sun will be there to give it life.
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We seek a life full of cookies and crumbs. A life to have and to hold, from this day forward. A life of vivacity, passion, goofiness, and adoration. A voyage that never ends filled with roads traveled over and over again. Watch, and you shall see.
2 comments:
love your last blog.
God grows the most beautiful flowers in the darkness---where light and air seem void, and our thirst unquenchable. in the darkest time of the soul, He can be found. His arms ever reaching to embrace, His love and wisdom remaining a constant compass for the willing. He longs to meet us there--where it all becomes clear, where sight takes on new meaning and Love has no bounds. MOM oxo
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"I am my beloved's. His desire is for me."
Song of Solomon 7:10 (NASB)
Kates-
May you continue to be blessed by HIS breath and light.
kates.
what mom said.
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