Believers and  unbelievers alike  would often like a sign from God to prove that He exists, or to confirm something that they are praying about. As I compared some of the Scripture related to signs, I discovered that when the Pharisees and Sadducees asked Him for a sign, they were actually testing Jesus, and He sighed deeply in His spirit and responded with the following answer, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” (Matthew 12:39, 16:1-4, Mark 8:12, and Luke 11:29) Although they had the Son of God in their midst, and saw many of His miracles, they were still asking for another sign?

However, when the disciples ask Him what the sign would be in response to His comments about the temple being destroyed, and related to His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:3-42, Mark 13:4-33, and Luke 21:7-36), He shared many signs with them.

In recent years, I have read and heard many testimonies of men and women who asked for a sign when they were in a situation or place where they had never heard the Good News of Jesus Christ (as is the case of many Muslims); or of people who were considering suicide because they reached “rock bottom” and were desperate for help. Since God knows their heart, he has actually given them dreams and other signs to reveal Himself to them. Since God loves everyone so much, and ” He is not willing that any should perish….” (2 Peter 3:9), He graciously uses many means to bring people to Himself.

Let’s not put God in a box, nor think that we always need a sign. Thomas said he wouldn’t believe what the other disciples said (that they had seen the Lord alive again), unless he could see in His hands the print of His nails, and put his finger in them, and put his hand into His side. When Jesus actually appeared to them again, He told Thomas he could do those things, and said, “Do not be unbelieving, but believing”, and He added, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”