My Lord and my God!

By A.Vonn Hartung

The doubting surrounding Doubting Thomas—Here we see once again the timidity and uncertainty in the apostles' belief in the resurrection of Jesus. As Thomas timorously places his hand in the wound (even as the Lord steadies his hand), the other apostles, to a man, look on vicariously sharing a moment of wondrous curiosity, even as they reinforce their own belief that this really is their Lord, who they know died on the Roman cross. In the bottom half of the circle, Calvary and the abyss that represents death, and the three-dimensional cross, the bridge from earthly to eternal reality.