The Word Is Affirmed

June 25

God doesn’t require us to believe Him on blind faith. He has given us an account of His miraculous intervention into the affairs of man that begins at the parting of the Red Sea! Of course, He counts it to our credit if we do, as evidenced by Jesus’ words to Thomas who had stated unequivocally that he would not believe Jesus had arisen unless he could thrust his finger into Christ’s wounds.

In John 20:27, 29, Jesus said to him, “Reach hither your finger and thrust it into My hands and My side, and be not faithless but believing...” Here Thomas responds, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus underscores the sublime truth that applies to all of us, “Because you have seen, you believe. Blessed are those who believe without seeing.”

We may say we have no such proof. We have not thrust our hand into the Lord’s wounded side. We have not held His nail-scared hand in our own. Yet, we have not been left without a convincing witness of the veracity of all the Bible assures us is true regarding creation, its history of man upon the planet, its matchless literature or the scarlet thread of salvation that it weaves through the entirety of its pages.

As II Samuel 7:22 states clearly, “There is no one like You and there is no God besides You as all we have heard confirms.” When those words were penned, there hadn’t yet been the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls that affirm the veracity of the Word. There hadn’t yet been the historical account of the resurrection. Yet the prophet knew by all he had seen and heard that the God who had led His people from captivity was worthy of all man’s praise and trust.