The 2nd Sunday After Easter

Forgiveness Happens Here

Jesus is both Lord and God

There’s a lot that goes on in the upper room.

Jesus appears to his disciples and extends peace to them with his own pierced hands and side.

Then Jesus breathes the Holy Spirit on them and sends them out as His deputies to forgive sins,

just as He did.

But Thomas wasn’t there the first go around, so Jesus returns the next week. But He doesn’t

come back to scold, but He comes back in mercy. He extends his resurrection peace to Thomas

too, despite his stubbornness. He invites Thomas to touch His now glorified wounds. In return,

Thomas makes one of the truest confessions of Christ: “My Lord and my God!”

Yes, Jesus is Lord, that is, our king, our master, our sovereign. And He is also our God, one with

the Father and Spirit, through whom the world was made. The Son of God has come to be our

king. Let this be our confession too!