John 20:27-28
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
There are two sorts of questions people ask. Some people ask questions to find things out. Others ask questions to keep from finding things out. The latter sort are seen in children who ask “just one more question” in order to keep from finding out it’s bedtime. They are also, more terribly, seen in the enemies of Jesus who asked incessantly for one more miracle, one more sign, in order to keep from facing the fact that he was the Messiah. But the other sort of questions are asked in cleanness of conscience and in the earnest pursuit of the truth. Today’s verse records the reaction of Our Lord to such honest people: He says, in essence, “You asked for truth, you shall have it!” And St. Thomas, his reason now satisfied and his faith (which is larger than reason) awake to the Truth makes the fitting and proper homage due the God of truth: “My Lord and my God!”. Today, live out the faith of Thomas which sought understanding. Ask questions, like Thomas, to find things out, not to keep from finding them out.
