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Meditation
My Lord and my God! (John 20:28)
What a privilege it must have been for Thomas to have gazed upon the glorified body of Christ and be invited to touch his wounds!
- In Thomas’ day, only a few hundred people saw the risen Lord and believed in him.
- Since then, however, millions upon millions have come to joyful belief in the miracle of the resurrection—
- and most of them without the help of physical evidence.
When Jesus told Thomas, “Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed” (John 20:29), - he was saying that his church would be built on the foundation of faith.
- It is by faith in Jesus that we experience the Spirit alive in us.
- It is by faith in him that we can be brought into the presence of the Lord and receive all of the blessings that God has in store for us.
- And it is by faith in the power of Jesus’ resurrection that we can experience our own freedom from sin, death, and fear.
Through faith, we are “no longer strangers and sojourners,
but . . . fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of
the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).
- We can take our place with St. Francis, St. Faustina, and all the other heroes and heroines of Christianity whose memories we honor.
- Each of us can become living stones in the church, built upon Jesus the cornerstone.
- Our foundation is not doctrine or ritual practices.
- It is Jesus himself, the glorified Son of God, whom we can come to know intimately by faith.
- Thomas learned this lesson.
- Before he even approached Jesus to examine his wounds,
- divine faith flooded his heart and opened his eyes.
- He not only believed that Jesus had returned from the grave,
- he proclaimed that Jesus was God
- —a knowledge that could only have come through faith.
- Like Thomas, let us allow the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to Jesus’ majesty as we seek him every day in faith.
“Lord Jesus, I place my trust in you. I want the kind of relationship with you that comes through faith. I stake my life on you, Lord, for I know you will never disappoint me.”