Melancholy love sister4/30/2023 The Melancholy’s disposition under love’s control is very valuable in the body of Christ. After Thomas experienced the Risen Jesus, he went on to do his job of bringing many to the Lord. While they still could not believe it for the sheer joy and marveled, He said to them, "have you anything here to eat?" They gave Him a piece of broiled fish, Luke 24:39-42. "See My hands and My feet, that it is I! Feel and handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. Jesus even joined Thomas in the (risen from the dead proof) program. Because of his honest expression of intellectual doubt, we can never be conned into believing that Jesus did not raise from the dead. His thorough mind could not accept any idea without an exhaustive search of the subject in question. Many have labeled him Thomas, the doubter. Humanly such a man was doomed to failure, but such was not the case with Thomas.” Tim LaHaye. Blatant because the words were spoken in spite of the Lord’s often repeated promise to rise again and the ten disciples’ assurance ‘that we have seen the Lord’. He is known as the doubting disciple because of his famous statement, ‘Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into his side, I will not believe’ (John 20:25) That is blatant unbelief induced by Thomas’ doubts. “The Apostle Thomas is a good New Testament example of what God can do with a Spirit-filled melancholy temperament.
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