While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. (Luke 24:36-48, NRSV)
Seriously Jesus! You have to ask why do doubts rise in our hearts?
I mean just earlier this week, 2 days ago we saw you on the cross. You were dead, and now here you are asking for something to eat?
This just doesn’t happen.
It is a puzzle like the one pictured here. Here is the description of this taken from the website it comes from:
The idea is to figure out how a bolt with two nuts and a washer was able to get itself where it’s at – that’s the part that seems impossible! Yet, here it is.
For those of you (and I will be willing to bet there is quite a few of you) that know how I did this, PLEASE do not post the solution – let others guess as that is the fun of this! 🙂
I will offer these clues:
– There was no glue used.
– The wood remaining in the picture was never cut, split nor broken.
– The holes are perfectly centered side to side in the wood and run perfectly level with the piece.
– This is one solid block of wood.
– The bolt is solid as well and has not been tampered with or cut in any way.
– The bolt moves freely, but snugly, in the holes, but of course it has to stop because of the outside pillars.
– This took me over five days to build.
– The nuts and washer? Purely decoration. 🙂
The piece measures 7 inches long, around 2 1/2 inches high and about 1 1/4 inches thick and is made from Southern Yellow Pine.
If you are wondering, that’s a 3/8” Stainless Steel Carriage bolt going through two 3/8” holes in the wood.
How is this possible. There is a bolt through a block of wood and there is not a hole on either end…
Just like Jesus standing in front of us after we saw Him brutally killed.
How can this be.
You see I can doubt that the above is true, yet I have seen something similar with my own eyes and held it in my hands. It is real. And so is the risen Jesus.
You see we are allowed to be puzzled. We are allowed to doubt. We are allowed to question.
Puzzles, doubts and questions push us towards discovery and understanding.
So live in the puzzlement of our faith, knowing that Christ is alive, even though He was dead. And because of that you also will live forever!
aSacredRebel 