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Years ago several times when my dad was sent overseas we went to live with our grandparents. I was just starting elementary school and my younger brother wasn’t in school yet. It was fun because they lived out in the country but sometimes we got into trouble, usually for not minding. There was a bush in my grandmother’s back yard and when a small branch was broken off it made a keen switch. Well, when we really did, it my mother would head for that switch bush and we knew we were going to really get it. Sometimes we would run to our grandmother screaming, “Grandmother she is going to kill us!” We would grab ahold of her legs and hold on for dear life. Sometimes she would talk my mother out of spanking us even though we deserved it. But we had to tell my mother we were sorry and we had to promise that we would obey her. Those memories remind me of something in the Bible. First, God is a God of love, (John 3:16-18, Romans 5:8, John 15:9). Second, God is a God of mercy, (Ephesians 2:4, 1 Timothy 1:14, Matthew 9:27, 29:30). But God is also a God of forgiveness, (Acts 26:18, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14). But we must put our faith in Jesus Christ and obey what the Bible says, (Matthew 6:33, Romans 12:2, John 14:21).
