The world we live in can be a very dark place to be. One of the things that makes it so is when people are selfish. Think only of themselves. When someone scratches your car in a car park, but doesn’t bother to leave a phone number. When you’re queuing to buy 6 items at the checkout with twins in tow, and someone else races to get to the belt first with their £200 trolley-full. Selfishness. Lovelessness.
I don’t know about you, but I have one nagging doubt about God. Do the wrong things that I’ve done during the course of my life mean that God does not love me in the way he would otherwise? In short – are my past mistakes really forgiven? Does God really love me? Or have I blotted my copybook with an indelible splodge or fifty?
Of course we want the answer to be “no”, don’t we? Does God love me less because of my mistakes? No.
As a Christian, do you ever find yourself wondering if you’ve backed the right horse? I do.
We’re so aware these days of all the world’s religions. Are we Christians by an accident of our birth, brought up in a Christian country or in a Christian home? Is the Christian faith better than any of the alternatives? Does it actually put us into contact with the real God? Or is it a phoney – a bit like a dodgy spiritualist who makes us feel better by pressing the right buttons but it’s all one big con? Does following Jesus actually do us any good at all?
