Has our view of God been distorted by so many religions, churches and even well-meaning Christians, leaving us with a very jaded perspective of who God truly is?

Contrary to man-made religion, we were created for freedom and diversity. Each of us carries within an instinctive thirst——a deep, inbuilt longing for something more.

We can be very skilled at finding ways to numb, deny, or busy ourselves in an attempt to suppress the truth of where we’re really at. Many of us build our lives on fleeting things trying to fill the vacuum of unfulfillment——whether through pleasures, possessions and accomplishments, or sadly, even social media.

Navigating through life can feel precarious for any of us——especially when we’ve built our lives on what we’ve ‘fashioned or created’ as our personal truth. Yet we’ve been offered the opportunity of a lifetime——literally! Not through religion but through a real relationship with God, our Maker——the only ‘true north’.

I J Fletcher (2024)