Look Some decisions are easy to make. I need a job right now to keep from getting evicted.

I'll take anything. My child needs this treatment for a serious illness, but we may have to borrow a lot of money. Who cares about the cost. But sometimes these decisions are not so easy. If you have the luxury of being able to choose a job, then you have to trust that this job will allow you to make the best use of your God-given talents. In the case of your child, one treatment option may be more invasive than another, but might (emphasis on "might") be more effective. Then you have to decide which medical expert to trust. So, in truth, most decisions are made with not as much information as we would like, and no assurance of the outcome. Most decisions require trust. The question then is, what inspires your trust: facts, intuition, personal connection?
1. How have you made decisions when you didn't have as much

information as you would have liked? Who, or what, inspired you to trust in the decision you were making? Book: John 20:19-31 The Disciples are afraid. Their doors are locked "for fear" of those who would treat them as they treated Jesus. The risen Jesus appears to them and dispels their fear with the declaration, "Peace be with you." Thomas was not there to receive that peace. And nothing will dispel his fear other than seeing just what the other disciples saw. Jesus appears to Thomas and implores him, "Do not be faithless, but faith." John's Gospel almost never uses the word "faith" as a noun. It is almost always a verb. To "faith" is an action. What is it principally an action of? To "faith," to believe, is to trust. Thomas places his trust in Jesus without the physical examination he previously demanded by declaring, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus emphasizes how blessed are all those who will trust His resurrection without having physical evidence. 1. Why do you think that the "doors were locked" one week after Jesus had appeared to the Disciples? Why wasn't Jesus's appearance enough to inspire their trust and completely let go of their fear? Or do you think they might have locked the doors because Thomas insisted? Took Jesus tells us today, as he told Thomas then, "Blessed are those who have not seen, yet still trusted." Jesus doesnt promise that our future will be easy, or safe. Jesus doesn't explain all the doctrinal implications of the Resurrection. He doesn't answer every question that follows from the Resurrection. Jesus asks us to step forward into the unknown future, with all our questions and fears, trusting that by the power of his Resurrection, neither failure nor disagreement nor death will have the last word.

1. What in your life of faith are you most uncertain about? How does your

trust in the risen Jesus deal with that uncertainty?