The garage rock sound of this Clearwater Pennsylvania band gives the feeling of the threat often associated with the title “Meet Your Maker” but in the incarnation we know that phrase and in invitation to life. To know the incarnate God is to encounter, now as we live, the one who has made our life and who gives them the purpose of love.
While there is so much mystery in the life and work of God we do not follow a God we don’t know. Jesus is exactly who God is and we know in Scripture and Spirit exactly what Jesus is like.
How does meeting our maker, in Scripture, in Spirit and in one another, effect how we know ourselves and how we are called to live now?
But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.’
A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.’ Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.’
John 20:24-29