One of the biggest dangers in our modern world is that of incredulity. Man has been so intelligent that he starts to question everything and anything, including God. Without faith, all events seem to be man- made or by chance.
With this doubt, the Holy Spirit does not exist anymore, therefore all events are explained only from the human point of view. Our interpretation of all our experiences remain at the human level, without the possibility of exploring that God might have intervened.
Therefore, many times with this doubt, we fail to understand why things happen, that there is a reason and purpose behind all the events, especially those we do not like nor expect. The cross starts to become more heavy and meaningless when we start doubting about the resurrection of Christ. We don’t see the relevance of Christ’s coming to the world and our life. When that happens, we enter into gloom and darkness that the evil one envelops us with. We doubt if God is present in the midst of the problem that we are experiencing. This doubt feeds into anger and frustration. We refuse to believe and accept that God has a plan. In our heart, we start to think God does not exist. We dismiss the cross as foolish and become determined to ignore as it is useless and senseless.
Today’s Gospel reading comes to rescue us and to strengthen our faith in the risen Christ. Christ admonishes us to “resist no longer and be a believer.” Christ is calling us today to believe without even seeing. God is real. God exists! He truly cares and loves us. Christ invites us to walk by faith and not by sight! Let us not doubt the love of God. Unlike Thomas let us believe, even though we have not seen.
