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And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.
Matthew 28:17
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Jesus had done it all.
He turned water into wine. He healed blindness, deafness, leprosy and paralysis. He cast out demons—and sent a whole legion of them into pigs that immediately ran off a cliff. He calmed a storm, walked on water, and even invited a disciple to step out and join Him. He raised three people from the dead. And after all of that, He Himself came back from the grave after three days.
And yet, “some doubted.”
These were not casual observers catching a glimpse of a traveling teacher doing something extraordinary. These were men who had walked with Him every day for three years and had seen the impossible with their own eyes. And now, even standing before the resurrected Christ, some still struggled to believe what they were seeing.
Is it any wonder that people today—who never saw those miracles firsthand—still wrestle with doubt?
That is one of the great truths in today’s passage: people will doubt, and Jesus still sends us to tell them anyway. He commands His followers to go into every nation and proclaim the Good News, making disciples of those willing to lay down their doubts and place their trust in Him.
That was always the purpose behind His coming—His life, His death, and His resurrection. He did not endure the cross so that faith would become little more than occasional church attendance, a few dollars in an offering plate, and a brief warm feeling before returning unchanged to ordinary life. He came so that those who know His saving grace would carry that grace into the world, so others might also be rescued from sin and death.
Lent and Easter have passed, but resurrection life is not over. In many ways, it is just beginning. Today, give thanks again for what Christ has done for you. Receive it—whether for the first time or the thousandth—and ask Him to use you to carry His light into a world where many still doubt, but still desperately need hope.
Reflection copyright © 2026 Doug DeBolt.
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