I’ve heard people talking about Thomas and Martha recently. Not together, of course. But talking about doubting Thomas and being like Mary rather than Martha.

It’s making me annoyed, again.

I mean Thomas doubted the word of Peter for a week. And who wouldn’t? I mean at that moment, Peter had betrayed Jesus. Why would Thomas have any reason to believe him?

And Thomas’s doubt lasted for a week, in real life. He saw Jesus, trusted Jesus, and may have been the first to take the stories of Jesus to India.

However, as humans, we love villains. We love to take one story and make it count for a person’s whole story.

God doesn’t.

In the stories of Thomas and Martha and Peter and Paul and others, we have enough stories that we can watch character development. We can see the see the change that happens because of interactions with Jesus. And opportunities from Jesus. And forgiveness.

Below, you can read the two parts of a message on Thomas that I’ve shared here before.

Be encouraged. And then stop talking about doubting Thomas.

Not so doubting Thomas.

Thomas didn’t get fired.