Read John 20:19-29 with your family.

Something I used to hear growing up was “just believe, don’t ask questions”. As a kid I found that hard to understand. As an adult who reads the Bible, I now know that is not the kind of faith God wants us to have.

Thomas asked questions like anyone else would. He wasn’t there the first time Jesus appeared in the Upper Room, so he had a hard time believing that Jesus had risen from the dead.

The challenge for us is that faith is believing when we can’t see something, and we are asked to have faith in Jesus and his resurrection.

However, having faith does not mean we stop asking questions. Even Jesus asked questions. That’s the only way we learn… and it’s the only way we can figure out if the adults around us know the answers or just want to stop the questions.