Scripture & Reflection:  Sunday 12th April - The Second Sunday of Easter - and for the week ahead:

Scripture:

Jesus said to Thomas, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.’, (John 20.29)

Reflection:

The challenge that Jesus posed for his disciples and for the rest of us was about trust.]

Thomas trusted Jesus enough to spend some three years as one of his close followers, but it took a personal encounter with the risen Jesus for him to exclaim ‘My Lord and my God’. Up to that point he had not trusted his friends when they told him that they had seen the risen Jesus; and he had not been able to trust that God, whom Jesus called his Father, had the situation under control. Now, he could.

We often speak as though faith in God is about agreeing that this or that is true. But the real issue is about trusting our heavenly Father.

David Harmsworth