A God with Wounds

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And after eight days again His disciples were inside, and Thomas with them, Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst, and said, “Peace be with you.” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see My hands, and reach here your hand, and put it into My side, and be not unbelieving, but believing.” Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.” (John 20:24-29)
Someone wrote: In the presence of the wounded God, who suffered the hell of being completely forsaken by the heavenly Father on the cross for his sake, Thomas lets his demands for proof fade away. He puts no finger where the nails and the spear went in. All of his conditions for believing dissolve in the face of the self-sacrificing God of extraordinary love whose deep wounds speak to and drown out Thomas’ own woundedness. No one can put conditions on this God who is like no other in the universe.