Your Doubts Don’t Scare Jesus
How the risen Christ meets us in our questions, our emotions, and our deepest wrestles with love that never flinches.
The room was too quiet. You know the kind of silence I mean, heavy, almost physical. The kind that creeps under your skin and stirs every question you have tried not to ask.
You have prayed. You have believed, at least you think you have. But tonight, the prayers feel like they are bouncing off the ceiling. And the Bible in your lap feels heavier than it did yesterday. Doubt sits across from you, uninvited but not unwelcome, because it is honest.
I wonder if Thomas felt like that.
Not the cartoon version we tell in Sunday School, the poor guy reduced forever to "Doubting Thomas" like that is all he ever was. No, I mean the man who gave up everything to follow Jesus. The man who watched Him heal lepers and open blind eyes, who heard His voice calm storms and break bread for thousands. The man who, when Jesus said He was going to die, actually said, "Let us also go, that we may die with him" (John 11:16).
Thomas was loyal. He was brave. And when the cross came, he was crushed.
Can you blame him for needing to see the scars?
"Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe" (John 20:25).
It was not cynicism. It was grief. It was hope gasping for breath.
And Jesus, oh Jesus, He did not flinch. He did not scold. Eight days later, the room was locked, but Jesus walked straight into it anyway. Straight into Thomas's doubt. Straight into his fear. Straight into his broken heart.
"Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and put it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing" (John 20:27).
He offered His wounds. He did not erase them. He let Thomas touch.
The world teaches us to be afraid of our doubts. To bury them. To fake a smile and parrot answers when our souls are aching for real encounter. But Jesus is not like the world.
Jesus is not afraid of our emotions either. He was there when we were knitted together in the secret place, breathing life into our forming bones (Psalm 139:13-16). He was present at the beginning of time, before the first sunrise, before the first breath of humanity. While He walked the earth, He experienced the full range of human emotion—grief, joy, anger, compassion. Nothing you feel surprises Him. Nothing you wrestle with makes Him flinch. He knows you completely, and still, He stays.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Isolation is. Pretending you do not have questions is what robs you of intimacy. Jesus would rather meet the real you, the one who is trembling, the one who is unsure, than the version you think you are supposed to be.
When Thomas touched the scars, he did not just find evidence. He found a Savior who had suffered with him, bled for him, and come back through death for him.
"My Lord and my God!" he cried (John 20:28).
There is no shame in your questions. No condemnation in your wrestle.
The risen Christ is still walking through locked doors.
Still holding out His hands.
Still saying, "Come closer. I am not scared of your doubts."
If something is stirring in you—don’t let it fade. This is your moment.
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