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One reason many young people leave the church, or a Hindu, or a Jehovah Witness, or Muslim, or any other religious heritage focuses on this question: is it the truth?

Christianity, like all culturally embraced set of ideas, persists sometimes because of deference for our parents. Church children become church parents. But is it the truth?

Many leave the church so-to-speak; they often turn away from their parent’s ideas when they can. Sometimes to turn away from the ways of your heredity may cost a person his life. Cultural and family pressure to conform can be very strong and sometimes lethal.

The suspicion that a ‘god’ exists has always been with us; even in our historic primitive past. That we have varying – multicultural we call them – religious notions today which once introduced have persisted on earth for some reason or another.

Black cannot be white. Up cannot be down. Religious and cultural differences, when they are in disagreement, cannot be both true. Therefore, this is a no-brainer, whoever has the truth, if truth is good and falsity misguides, must speak out––goodness demands it.

Ideas of today and of all times are our compilation of ideas. Some have been proven wrong. It was once taught us that religion is wrong. Not only were the Greek rationalists anti-religion, but that element from the influence of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment had its season in leadership thinking.

Education today, doesn’t allow for a critical examination of religious ideas. This satisfies the human urge to believe that something like a god is out there or in me; but closes the door to our finding actual truth.

But, among histories answers to that inner spirituality we experience is the testimony of many that God has spoken; that He has made the truth known.

When a claim is made by a person, we may reject what he said or blindly accept it; but we cannot claim that we are right in rejecting it unless we have good reason.

Jesus has proven to have been the most unusual Man ever to have lived. His goodness was unusual. His miracles were astoundingly unusual. His resurrection stands apart from all human accomplishment– all of us want to believe and be certain that we too will live again and that death is only a curtain and not the end: His death was not the end.

Jesus, known as the Christ by those who have received Him since His resurrection, is the Savior not only from our sin, but also from a sorry death.

The suspicion that God exists was answered by God’s Son. The suspicion, we call “general revelation.” Revelation is God making himself known with surety so that we need not stumble on in life blindly accepting the superstitions of our ancestors and families.

We were designed in such a way that we can know the truth when we see it. Jesus said, “I am the truth,” and He said, “Thy word is truth.” (John 14-17:17).

The only way to personally know if God is real and if life’s answers are correctly explained in the Bible are dependent on God’s direct revelation of himself and the truth. Meeting God need not be in the hazy future beyond the grave. He is God, and He has continuously reached out to man.

What a God He is! He sent His word. He sent us the Spirit of Himself. He gave us a life meant for happiness to never end and instilled in us such a desire. He sent His Son who truly has our back covered and who eagerly awaits our forward steps even the moments of today and every tomorrow until we meet Him face to face.

This Son told us of the sufferings we will face. He told us He is with us in them and that we can overcome even death – through Him.

No religion can compete with this “Gospel.” The very term, “Gospel,” earned as its synonym, “Truth.”

Is it not amazing that His church has survived; more than survived; and that revival of the Gospel’s church is happening on a global level from Singapore, Australia, Europe, and other places on Earth?

The message common to that of Jesus’ disciples still says, “It’s real!”

Jesus satisfies our every longing.

He instills in us hope.

He heals our inner man.

He inspires us to press on even as we age.

He takes away our sin and stirs in us the desire for right living.

He promised and multitudes have found it true that we shall know the Truth – Him – and that He will set us free.

The God who is there is real. He communicates with those willing to hear him. It would be strange – foreign to reason – if He who is there remained silent and left us to our guessing game. It would be tragedy to have lived a life in resistance to Him.

Dear reader, “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.” (Isaiah 55:6).

Buddy