What Doubting Thomas Can Teach Us

We find in our text today a blessing which many of us perhaps would never consider to be a blessing. For we are so often of the mind that if we were living in the days in which the Lord Jesus ministered here on the earth and if we heard His words and beheld His miracles, we would be more likely to believe in Him and His power to save, to believe in His faithfulness to provide for all our needs, to hope in the certainty of all His promises. That is because we have adopted the modern day, unbiblical view that “seeing is believing”.

But dear ones, seeing is not believing; for many saw all these miracles with their eyes and heard the words of the Lord Jesus with their ears, and yet believed not. The problem is not that there is not enough evidence to believe in Jesus Christ—the problem is that we do not take the Lord Jesus at His word. Though He is absolutely trustworthy (for He cannot lie, Titus 1:2), we choose to cling to what we can see with our eyes and hear with our ears rather than trust Almighty God and His faithfulness.

May God lift up your faith to lay hold of Jesus Christ today as He has revealed Himself in His Word. The main points from our text this Lord’s Day are the following: (1) Thomas Gives an Ultimatum of Unbelief (John 20:24-25); (2) Christ Condescends to the Ultimatum of Thomas (John 20:26-27); (3) Thomas Confesses His Faith in the Resurrected Christ (John 20:28-29).