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Suffolk 

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Just a Thought

The American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said; “Religion is everywhere; there are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as religion or not.” 

Human societies are made up of individuals and every adult in that society is religious in the sense that we all live by what we believe, particularly by what we believe happens to us after death. 

However, our difficulty is that by nature we have a deceived heart that leads us astray so that we cannot recognise by ourselves when we are believing a lie.(Isaiah 44 v 20). We are alienated from God which has caused our understanding to be darkened (Ephesians 4v18). Because we are in darkness, God in His love for us has given us the truth about life in His word, such that it is said to be ‘a lamp to our feet and a light to our path’(Psalm 119 v 105). Jesus declared Himself to be ‘The Truth’ (John 14 v 6); ‘The Light of the world so that anyone following Him would not walk in darkness but have the light of life’ (John 8 v 12); and that ‘everyone who was of the truth would listen to Him’ (John 18 v 37) 

We have the choice of either believing and living by our own deceived thinking or submitting our lives in trust to Him. 

God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3 v 16