Isaiah 40:21-22
We are Like Grasshoppers
21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
John 20:24-29
Thomas Touches Jesus
24Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"
But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."
26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
29Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
Isaiah, when speaking in terms of God and man, writes that man is like a grasshopper when compared to God...God sits above the circle of the earth and we, the inhabitants on earth, are like grasshoppers...Man is like the grasshopper who when looking at man, as a man walks by (the grasshopper) and is trying to sense what man is...The grasshopper probably with his small brain and antenna, has no idea what man is, when one walks by...Yet, the grasshopper knows man is there and hops off when man nears him...Like the grasshopper, our knowledge is nothing when compared to the wisdom of God...We would like to think that we know more and more and are very knowledgeable and wise...But when we read the Bible, we realize that God is Almighty and we are actually like the grasshopper...
But a easier analogy for us is that we God is our Father...If we believe that we are His children, then we are always wanting to learn, and know more about things, and more about Him...Sometimes we like a child, we cannot get our minds around many mysteries of God, like the grasshopper looks up to man from his humble position...The grasshopper knows man exists, but knows very little about us...Man is a mystery to the grasshopper...But God created us in His image and not in the image of the grasshopper...We have a desire to know the truth, especially His Divine Truth and His Divine Love...He puts in us this curiosity of a child to search for things and one of them is to seek Him...
During our search and learning in our lives, we have times of doubt...We may have many doubting times...No better a story of doubt is the one about St. Thomas...He is the disciple of Jesus, who is labeled the Doubting Thomas...Thomas is the disciple, who like a child, did not believe the other disciples that Jesus had resurrected from His death...Thomas had to touch Jesus and His wounds, before He would believe, that Jesus was alive again...For learning to take place and doubt to leave us, sometimes we need to see and touch things...Thomas could not get his mind around someone dying and then coming back to life...Like a learning child, he had to touch His Master, before he would stop doubting...
During my times of doubt, I think of the grasshopper and being a child of God...I do not understand all the mysteries of God...If I understood everything about God, He would not be much smarter than me...But God is everything...He created the earth...He sits above it and controls these things with His truth and love...I am like Isaiah's grasshopper...
Jesus came back to earth, and Thomas got to see Him...Jesus invited Thomas to touch Him and His wounds, much like God invites us to search, find, and touch Him...Then Jesus says those great words, that seem like He is speaking to each one of us, "blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."...