“To see is to believe.” In many circumstances, similar to the teachers of the law and Pharisees in today’s reading, we have to witness ourselves before we accept, we have to see with our own eyes before we believe. We always need proof or evidence and we have to experience things ourselves before we believe. Are we likewise that skeptical in matters of faith?
Better than seeing what is visible to the human eye is experiencing it from the heart. Be it a smooth-sailing or bumpy ride, our faith-journey with our Lord Jesus Christ should be based on pure trust in a loving God who wants nothing else but to give us salvation and everlasting life.
Sometimes we are too busy and pre-occupied looking for miracles that we forget to recognize and appreciate the everyday blessings we receive from God. Our lives are living testimony of his great power. What miracles do we need, what kind of proof is still needed in order for us to recognize God and love him with the same passion as he loves us?
Just like his love for us, our faith should not be conditional; we need not demand for miracles. Instead we just need to believe and trust wholeheartedly. As the risen Jesus chided the doubting Apostle Thomas the week after his resurrection, “you believe because you see me, do you not? Happy are those who have not seen and believe.
We pray that, like Thomas before the risen Lord, we can say in faith and with great love, even though we have not seen, “You are my Lord and my God.”