Seeing is not always believing!

Have you ever seen something, you just could not believe, so much so that you had to watch it twice or several times? I recently saw a video of a group of men digging in the rubble of a building that had collapsed in a foreign country. As the video concluded it turned out they were digging a baby out of the rubble. The baby was alive! It was hard to believe. In our society, young people and old alike are greatly influenced by what they see. Many only believe what they see, and feel justified in not believing in God because they can’t see Him. In the gospels Jesus had journeyed with the disciples and did many miracles right before their very eyes. They witnessed lame men walk and blind men receive their sight not to mention they watched Jesus bless a basket containing two fish and a mere five loaves of bread, yet He used it to feed thousands. Not only that the thousands were filled and there were leftovers! How could you not believe in a Savior like that after seeing what they saw right? Nevertheless, there was one who had trouble believing, his name was Thomas. Jesus had declared that once He had been offered up a living sacrifice and killed that He would rise again. No doubt Thomas heard this declaration as he had traveled with Jesus. However when it was discovered that Jesus indeed had risen after He had revealed Himself to the disciples Thomas didn’t believe, as he was absent when Jesus showed up. John 20:25 records Thomas saying, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” Not only was he unbelieving he was unwilling to change his mind without very hard evidence. I fear there are many in our world today living under this same mindset. The story concludes by letting us know that Jesus reappears and reveals himself to Thomas, allowing him to see and feel what he was determined he needed to in order to believe. Jesus had some important words to share with Thomas that we all need to remember today. In John 20:29 Jesus said to Thomas, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” You see, many in our world today only believe in what they see or so they say, yet they see people walk away from car accidents when they should have died or babies emerge from collapsed buildings unharmed and still have the nerve to say there is no God! Know this, seeing is NOT always believing. I have never seen God but I have seen His power! I know He lives, how about you? Think about it!