Personal Narrative: The Doubting Thomas

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened,” (Holy Bible, Mathew 7:7-8). I have heard this Bible verse from Matthew many times, and although it’s message left little room for perception, I found myself mirroring Jesus’ Disciple, Thomas, who had to ‘see to believe.’ Sure, I prayed regularly. Sometimes those prayers were answered, and other times they were clearly neglected. But when those prayers were answered, did I sincerely accept that it was the work of the almighty God himself? Were divine trials and celestial miracles simply a synthetic artistry created by man to explain a much greater enigma? Answered prayers set into angelic action; that is where the Doubting Thomas came into play. Yes, of course I believed in God, Jesus, and angels; but did they genuinely intervene in the everyday lives of every believer created in his image? The Doubting Thomas in me needed to face a substantive encounter before I could rid of any agnosticism. Indeed, such an encounter undeniably focused my dubious and perplexed view. Prayers are answered and miracles do happen as I uncovered in my own claimed experience.
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