Heaven Land Devotions - Except I Shall See...

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Thomas was not among the other ten disciples when Jesus Christ
appeared to them. He showed Himself alive with some mighty
"infallible proofs."


They touched Him and watched Him eat a piece of broiled fish and
a honeycomb. They were overjoyed.


When Thomas heard about it, his response was disbelief. To hear
their Lord was alive and showed Himself to all ten men was not
enough for him to accept.


I can almost feel a kind of violent emotional reaction to
something so unheard of. Even though Jesus did tell themm He
would rise again. I sense a bit of hurt as well.


There is powerful ownership in his demand, "Except I shall see in
His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the
print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not
believe!"


Eight days later Jesus appeared among them, but this visit was an
answer to Thomas' gut wrenching line drawn in the sand statement.
Jesus came for that kind of violent love demand.


This was a powerful demonstration of not believing just because
everybody else did. But there being only one among them, in a
fierce pasion insisted on his own encounter and settled for
nothing less.


This is a mark of growing Christian maturity. Thomas was called
"Doubting Thomas," but I ask the question, "Is it such a bad
thing to doubt?" Oswald Chambers said, "Doubt is not always a
sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking."
There is something the Lord stands up and takes notice of when a
person goes up the mountain alone to pray and seek the Lord with
a made up mind.


Jesus is a rewarder of this kind of determination.


“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never
go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something
He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing
to you.”


― Charles Spurgeon