The Truth Is…

This powerful message centers on John 20:31 and the post-resurrection appearance of Jesus to Thomas, revealing three transformative truths that reshape how we approach our struggles. First, we're reminded that people are people—nothing more. Thomas, absent from the first meeting with the risen Christ, embodied our human frailty through his doubt and fear. His famous declaration 'I will not believe' resonates with our own moments of skepticism when circumstances overwhelm us. Yet this same doubting disciple became the only person in the four Gospels to directly declare Jesus as God, exclaiming 'My Lord and my God!' Second, we discover that God is God—nothing less. Every miracle in John's Gospel begins at a zero point: no wine, no new birth, no living water, no health, no bread, no sight, no life. Jesus specializes in transforming our emptiness into abundance. The glove illustration powerfully demonstrates this reality—we are like empty gloves, powerless on our own, but when filled with Christ's presence, we become instruments of God's work in the world. Third, faith works in the miraculous, the mundane, and everything else. The mystery revealed in Colossians 1:27—'Christ in you, the hope of glory'—isn't just future promise but present reality. When we allow Jesus to fill every fiber of our being, we become His hands reaching out to a hurting world, His voice speaking hope to the hopeless, His presence bringing peace to the troubled. This is the hope our world desperately needs.