SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/21/2021 7:43 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Thomas”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 10:3b
Message of the
verse: “Thomas
and Matthew the tax collector;”
I promised to look at the next story
about Thomas for this SD, and I have to say that it is a rather short one, but
since this is the weekend my Spiritual Diaries are always shorter any way. I have decided to quote this short portion
from MacArthur’s commentary as he seems to add some things to this familiar
story that I have not thought about before, which is not unusual any way, as
that is why I like to use MacArthur’s commentaries to aid me in the study of
God’s Word.
“In the upper room following the
Last Supper, Jesus urged the disciples not to be troubled in heart and assured
them that He was going to prepare a heavenly place for them and would come again
and receive them to Himself, in order that they might forever be with Him. He then said, ‘And you know the way where I
am going’ (John 14:1-4). Puzzled at
this, Thomas asked, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know
the way?’ (v. 5).
“Only a few days earlier Thomas had
declared his determination to die with Christ if necessary. His devotion to Christ was unqualified, but
like the other disciples he had almost no understand of Jesus’ death,
resurrection, and ascension, for which his Master had been preparing him for
three years. Thomas had little
comprehension of what Jesus had just said, apparently assuming Jesus was only
talking about a long journey to a distant country. He was bewildered, saddened, and anxious. Again the disciple’s pessimism and also his
love are revealed. His pessimism made
him fear that he might somehow be permanently separated from his Lord, and his
love for his Lord made that fear unbearable.
Understanding Thomas’s heart as well as his words, Jesus said, ‘I am the
way, and the truth, and the life’ (v. 6).
‘If you know Me,’ Jesus was saying, ‘you know the way. And if you are in Me, you are in the
way. Your only concern is to be with Me,
and I will take you wherever I go.’”
8/21/2021 7:59
AM
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