Week 18

This week let's continue with the next few verses of the passage we began last week.  Often we skip over verses 4 and 5 and move directly to verse 6.  But, these verses are here for a purpose.  You know, I have always identified with and felt sorry for Thomas.  He gets such a bad reputation for asking the questions that most of us would like to ask,we are often just too scared.  He doubts, but sometimes I wonder if he, like me, doubts himself more than he doubts his Lord.  Am I the only one who begins to question things when they seemingly do not go according to plan?  It is not that I always question God's love or His sovereignty, sometimes I just question my own understanding.  Did I misinterpret something?  Maybe that was not what I was supposed to do?  Is this what God wants me to do or what I want to do?  Did I hear that correctly?  You get the point.  So think of Thomas, he just wanted to make sure that he understood what Jesus was saying.  He wanted to be certain that he knew where Jesus was going and how to follow Him there.  Give Thomas a break and try to relate to him, maybe he, like us, just wanted to make sure that he was understanding everything that Jesus was telling him so that he could follow Him completely. 

John 14:4-6
"And you know the way where I am going."  Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me."