Out of the all of the people mentioned in the Bible, Thomas is the one person who is identified with doubting. He’s certainly not the only person who questioned. There are many folks in the Bible who had their questions about what God was doing. Job did. Jeremiah sure did. Sarah laughed at what God said He would do. Asaph wondered what in the world God was doing. But, somehow “doubt” never stuck with any of those folks. It was Thomas who got tagged, “doubter,” and it has stuck throughout the past two thousand years.
Thomas had followed Jesus for three years. When he watched Jesus arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, Thomas ran for his life. He was no doubt watching from a distance when the Romans nailed Jesus to a cross and put Him on display at Golgotha. As Jesus’ life slowly faded, so did Thomas’ hope.
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