My Lord And My God

Then He said to Thomas, Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing. And Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God! 

John 20: 27-28 

Christ brings us to believe in Him. He is both gracious and kind in how He does it. Thomas was an individual who required physical, first-hand proof that Christ had risen from the dead. Whereas Christ could have ignored his need for proof, He did not. Rather, He appeared to them all on the second Sunday and addressed Thomas particularly. This shows us how willing Christ is to meet us where we are. We may not have Thomas’ particular issue, but we have other issues. Christ knows what they are. He knows how to bring us to believe in Him. Throughout the Scriptures we see him meeting His people at their point of need to increase faith and foster belief. Therefore we have abundant cause to rejoice in Him and how He deals with us. He is in every way the God of the individual. As He continues to reveal Himself to us through the means of grace, let us not be unbelieving but believing. As we look for Him daily in the Scriptures, let us pray that He will give us hearts that believe, even though we have not seen Him. Someday the faith shall be sight. 

Our Lord and our God, 
we rejoice that You meet us where we are. 
We praise You that You show Yourself to us
and bring us to believe.