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2025.03.09
Week 2: Doubt

Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

When Thomas said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
John 11:16

Let us also go, that we may die with him.
John 11:16

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
John 14:5

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6

If you doubt the things of God, you are in good company.

For more than a week I was close to the gates of death and hell. I trembled in all my members. Christ was wholly lost. I was shaken by desperation and blasphemy of God.
–Martin Luther

For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Romans 8:36

We must be honest about our doubts

Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.
John 20:25

Your honest doubts shouldn’t hinder your pursuit of Jesus, it should strengthen it.

Jesus wants to turn doubters into disciples.

Anything worth believing in, is worth questioning.
Anything worth believing in, is worth questioning.

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
John 20:26

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

My Lord, and My God.