John 20:28 “And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.”
Our Lord is not just a good orator, not just a good leader, not just another king, and not just a friendly helper. He is our “Lord” and He is our “God”! Although “Thomas” had walked with the Lord, heard His powerful preaching and teaching, and had seen Him perform miracles; he still did not understand that, while Jesus is the Messiah, He is also “Lord” and “God”. When “Thomas” heard that the “Lord” had risen from the dead, he did not believe it, he even declared that he would have to personally handle His resurrected body before he would believe it. When the Risen-Lord did show Himself to “Thomas”, He said to him, “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.” (John 20:27). Thomas’ educated response was, “My Lord and my God”! He could have simply said, ‘Oh Jesus’, but he explicitly declared “My Lord and my God”; that is, now I believe. “My Lord” means you own me, I belong to you, I submit to Thy Sovereign Authority and Power, and my life is to be spent as your servant. “My God” means that Thou art the Sovereign-Eternal Creator and Ruler of all; that is, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” (Psalms 90:2) and “Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is” (Acts 4:24) and “the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him” (Deuteronomy 4:35) and “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12). Such a “Lord”-“God”, Who raised Himself from the dead, is able to “save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21) and deliver us from every “tribulation” (John 16:33) that this present life casts upon us! We like “Thomas” see and believe only because our “Lord” has given us “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye” (Proverbs 20:12); that is, Spiritual ears to hear His voice (John 10:16,27) and Spiritual eyes to “see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man” (Hebrews 2:9). Thus, we rejoice to speak to ourselves “in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in” our “heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:19).