My Lord and My God
March 23, 2008
Two thousand years ago a group of women went to a tomb expecting to find a dead man. They watched Jesus be crucified and sealed in a tomb. He was dead and they were powerless!!! Stop, think, and let that sink in for a moment. So many Christians search for life stumbling through the dark going to the tomb of a dead man. We pray to Jesus as if He were still in the tomb. Dead men do nothing, hear nothing, see nothing, and expect nothing from our lives.
It is a miraculous thing for a dead man to see the risen Lord in the flesh. Prior to salvation we are all dead men. When we look to the risen Lord it is a radical change that takes place as we are transformed from dry dead bones into living breathing sons and daughters that bear the image of God. Allowing the image of Christ to transform us is still the greatest miracle of all time.
Thomas was a dead man like us who had trouble believing. When the darkness of the cross surrounded Jesus and He did not understand God all faith in a living savior and a resurrection power in his own life left him. “So he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the prints of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe… Then Jesus 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.” (John 20:25; 27). Christianity began with a demonstration of God adding His power to an impossible situation in a life that had purposed that nothing would keep Him from doing the Father’s will. It is time for God’s people to look at the risen Savior and cry with Thomas, “My Lord and My God!”
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