Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
The most striking sentence to me is the last. Would Thomas have said this on the day he met Jesus? Probably not. Early in my life, after rebirth, I took this as a very fatalistic statement—a might as well go with him, nothing else for us to do. But now I see it as a statement of faith and commitment. Thomas is ready to die for His Lord and Master and eventually did.
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 64
Mid-day: 119:65-72
Evening: Psalm 140
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