"Doubting Thomas." Have you ever heard that expression? How about "Seeing is believing"? These word pictures and truisms come from the Bible story of Thomas, a disciple who refused to believe in the resurrection of Jesus unless he could see and touch the proofs of the means of death in His body.

Author Mark Buchanan wrote the following in his book Your God is too Safe:

"Thomas was a true skeptic. He doubted not to excuse his unbelief, but to establish robust belief. He doubted so that his belief might be based on something more than rumor and wishful thinking...

"Doubt, when honest, should set us on a quest for that which is true and real, for that which we can not only give intellectual assent but, more than that, can entrust our very lives to. Thomas’s doubt led to this place. Jesus shows His wounds to Thomas, tells Thomas to see, to touch. He sees, but he doesn’t touch. He knows when enough is enough. And here is the real sign that Thomas is not some poseur, some mere academic trend chaser: His seeing gives way, not just to belief, but to worship. ‘My Lord and my God!’ he proclaims."

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