Proclaiming Complete Belief and Submission to Jesus

John 20:28

Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

The unbelief of Thomas is well documented in the Bible.  He was a skeptic, a true doubter, looking for proof that the Lord was who He said He was. 

Thomas' story is the perfect illustration of the struggle of every believer who is wavering in deciding his or her relationship with Jesus Christ.  What sets Thomas apart from those that never fully surrender their lives to Jesus was his sincerity in seeking the Lord.  While Thomas was weak in his convictions, he was sincere in seeking the truth.  Jesus was gracious in His response to Thomas just as He will be for all that are sincere in seeking Him.

Like Thomas, we are all called to come to the the place where we finally see and believe the total redemptive work of Jesus and fully submit to Him as Our Lord and Savior. Thomas, once seeing the wounds of Jesus, proclaimed both his complete belief and complete submission to his Master when he spoke the words, "My Lord and My God."  All in one burst, Thomas asserts his interest in Jesus as his Lord, espouses his affection for Him and denotes his submission to Him.  This is exactly what Jesus Christ is looking for from each of us.

Even though we may have been slow and weak in our commitment to Christ, Our Lord waits on our sincere entreaty.  He will respond to each of us just as He responded to Thomas.  He will overpower us with His presence so that we may with the same exuberance as Thomas proclaim, "My Lord and my God."

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for the loving kindness, the mercy and the grace that You extend to us in our slowness and our weakness in surrendering everything to Your Son, Jesus.  We pray, Lord, that You will open our eyes so that we can see, fully believe in and seek the precious gift that is available to us in a relationship with Your Son.  Father, we ask that You take us to a place where we are overpowered by the presence of Jesus just like Thomas was.  May Your Holy Spirit guide us and strengthen us so that there will be nothing left in us that doubts the fullness of the new life in Christ that awaits us.  We ask all these things in the name of Our Lord and Our God, Jesus Christ.