K Ellis asks for proof of God’s existence in May 5’s letters, and I can sympathise with his ­question, having been there myself. Our problem is that we often look in the wrong places – we don’t, for instance, measure electricity with a ruler or how much fuel we have put in the car with a thermometer.

God is love, yet will destroy the wicked; he is holy yet welcomes the weak and the fallen; he is powerful but came to us in the person of a man, Jesus of Nazareth, crucified on a cross for our sin but risen again from the dead to set us free.

Most of all he responds to the depths of our emptiness and longing, and if we genuinely want to know whether he exists or not, and cry out to him from our hearts, he will respond to that cry. I know, he did it for me more than 40 years ago, and it was the best thing that ever happened.

“Call to me,” he says to us through the prophet Jeremiah, “and I will answer you and show you great and unsearchable things which up to now you have not known.”

Rolf Burnie

Langdon

Thurlestone