"Simply Amazing!"

As one reads their Bible, you find God express Himself in different ways. Sometimes He used His power to get across a point to man through natural calamities. At times God revealed Himself in Majesty as in dealing with Isaiah (Isa. 6). The apostles saw the power and might of God in Jesus as He rebuked the wind, walked on the water and raised the dead.

There was one apostle named Thomas that saw Jesus one day in the upper room. There was no power, no ground shaking or defying nature. A Savior that stood in front of Thomas quietly and humbly with visible wounds. The words came to his ears, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing." (John 20:27) Thomas, in his amazement said, "My Lord and my God!" What a staggering confession! It was more than, "Hey, you're alive after all!" It even went beyond, "Now I believe!"

We miss the depths so many times because we simply do not look at our Savior and Lord. Let me see if I can draw your mind to open up and see what I think I see. We just read words and plod right along missing the insight to God. It is not that Thomas identified Jesus as God, which is profound in itself. Listen closely: it is the kind of God that stood before Thomas that amazes the mind! Here is a God that spoke this world into existence, that could remove mountains, who knows each star in the heavens by name and all the nations of this world are a mere drop of water from a bucket before Him - that kind of God was standing before Thomas. A God that was beaten, whipped and cut, standing quietly before Thomas, with all of the doubts Thomas had, asking him to "reach here." He is a God that gave Himself up to lowly, dust made, selfish and brutal man whom He had created standing before Thomas. Yes, it was the Almighty that made Himself vulnerable in mans hands and for what reason? Because His love would have it no other way! Now that's simply amazing to me!