If you have to carry some of the consequences of what you've done wrong, it can be powerful incentive not to do it again--which can save you from consequences that will be far worse. Now that's why God sometimes allows you and me to experience some unpleasant results of our sin. It's not that He hasn't forgiven us or that He doesn't love us. It's because He does.
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Topics: Forgiveness, Genesis, Hebrews, Grace, Peace, Discipline, Correction, Rescue, Your Most Important Relationship, Consequences
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