I didn't reply because I just want to focus on Him....but I wanted to share my testimony which confirms what you are saying. I got saved when I was 7...I spent my growing up years going to church and learning from what was preached at the pulpit. My pastor was a hell, fire and brimstone preacher...as I became an adult and more aware of sins in my life I began to get depressed because I seemed to always mess up. I was always going up front during alter call to "get saved again", "rededicate my life", getting the demons cast out....yadayada…..and one day I just gave and cried out to God and said this Christianity thing is too hard and no matter how hard I try I always mess up and might as well prepare for hell.....that is when God spoke to me (for the 1st time...I was 24)….and said He was my Father and as much as I loved my daughter so much more does He love me that I cannot even comprehend it....that as my daughter grows up and I teach her right and wrong and reward or discipline her I will never stop loving her......God said that is how I am....I am a good Father....I will love you, teach you and discipline you but never will I let you go.
So that ended my years of condemnation.....I know what His Grace and Mercy is all about now....and I don't abuse it but am ever grateful for it.
