The Actual Truth is, God Loves You, Us, Me.

As a child, I had a bad experience with the church.
It wasn’t anything that bad really. But, as a child, it made me turn my back on the church, and in effect, all things to do with God.

It was so bad, that when a church group came to my secondary school assembly, when I was a teenager, on an outreach mission, all I could do was mutter under my breath, “This is a load of old nonsense and rubbish!!” (Or something like it.)
Apparently, I was louder than I thought I was, as my friend said to me, “You really didn’t like them. You were muttering about them all through that.”

It was true, I didn’t like them at all, even though I didn’t even know them.
My past experience, was colouring how I viewed them.

So what was this terrible experience then??
(As I have already said, it was a nothing thing really.)

I was at Sunday school, and we were given leaflets with a picture on it to colour in. There were two scenes in the leaflet.

One scene was of a child, offering their toy to another child, saying, “Would you like to play with my toy?”
The second scene was of a child, holding firmly onto their toy saying, “It’s mine!”

As a child with three brothers, I firmly identified myself as the child in the second scene, of “It’s mine!”

There was a tick and a cross on both scenes. There was a cross on the scene that I thought was me. The tick was on the scene of “How you should be acting”.

I had absolutely no intention of ever being like that first scene!!!

As such, all that leaflet said to me, was that the church was telling me that, “I was Bad!”

I fully turned my back on the church, because of that leaflet.

That leaflet had sold me a lie, that I was “Bad”, because I didn’t want to follow, “The Right Way”, to do things.

Yet here I am now, writing a post, declaring that,
“God Is Love, and that He Loves You, with an Everlasting Love!!!”

That’s a bit of a turnaround then. 🙂

What’s brought about such a turnaround then?
The short version is, that I now know what the “Actual Truth” is.

I would love to write down in a short snappy way, how I came to know what the Actual Truth is, but it was a bit of a long process.

The shortest snappy version that I can give, is that The Truth sought me out, and when I was face to face with “The Actual Truth”, then I just couldn’t deny it!

Part of that Truth is that, God isn’t just watching over me, waiting for me to mess up, and then tell me how bad I am.
Instead He is. Loving Heavenly Father, who feels my pain, when things go wrong.
Instead of wanting to condem and criticise, He wants to teach and correct, as a Loving Heavenly Father, as One who wants the Best, for Their child.

You might possibly be thinking something as along the lines of, “Well that sounds like a nice truth for you, but it’s not like any kind of truth that I know.”

The reality is that a truth, is a truth, whether you accept it, or not. Knowing what the actual truth is, can change your perspective though.

The next question could then be,
“Do you want to know what “The Actual Truth is?”

To quote an old TV programme, “The truth is out there.”

Matthew 7:7-8
⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

John 3:16-17
¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

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If there is anyone who would like to seek out the Truth, I do have an archive page of posts with an outreach feel to them.
(Posts that try to shine a light, on the Truth.)
If you feel lead to, then please do consider having a look. (Link below)

Posts with an Outreach feel.