The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.
-Hebrews 12:6 NLT
God as judge. God as conscience.
When God is in our hearts, it hurts to do wrong. To sin is to miss the mark and that applies to every word, thought, and action not created in love.
When you are loved, you feel a responsibility toward that love. You wish to honor it and be worthy of it.
We all fall short of that worthiness and that hurts. The hurt comes from not stepping up into God’s awesome love and projecting it into the world. That awesome love is unshakable and rallies around us when we fall.
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