Wow, December is already flying by. Is your tree up? Have you untangled lights and searched for which bulb is out on a string? Decorations and stockings hung? Cookies baked? Gifts wrapped? Me neither! Have you cracked open your Christmas Conversations book or shared something that you read with someone else? Don't miss out, this is a great way to pull Jesus into our December busyness, if even for a couple minutes.
As I continue to think about this question of evidence... "What kind of evidence do you need to believe in God" (Day 3)... my mind went toward Thomas who couldn't believe those who were saying that Jesus' grave was empty and that He had appeared to them alive. Thomas made it clear that he would not believe in a resurrected Jesus short of seeing the nail marks in His hands and putting his own finger into Jesus' pierced side (John 20:25). Thomas needed evidence. However when Jesus came to Thomas, saying "Let me show you who I am" (a paraphrase, but echoing Day 3) "see my hand, put your finger in my side"... when Jesus appeared to Thomas with the evidence Thomas said he needed, he did not put his finger in Jesus' side. Instead he spoke words about who Jesus is, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus' coming to him moves Thomas from disbelief to belief.
The Bible verse for Day 3 focuses us on markings on hands. Isaiah writes the Word of God, "Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." The relationship that God has established with us (getting us toward Conversation days 4-5) is one unlike we will find with anyone else... our closest friends, our spouses, parents or children. Keep tracking along to see what this Conversation has to say about God's relationship with you!
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