Emphasis Preaching Journal

One of my favorite Charlie Brown cartoons shows Charlie, Lucy and Snoopy walking along the road. Lucy is speaking: "Sooner or later, Charlie Brown, there's one thing you're going to have to learn. You reap what you sow. You get out of life exactly what you put into it. No more and no less."

Hearing these words, Snoopy stops following Charlie and Lucy. He walks in the opposite direction and says to himself, "I'd kind of like to see a little more margin for error."

The good news of the Bible is that there is a little more margin for error. God is a God of mercy.