When Mom called me by my first name, I was in good standing.
Even if her voice didn’t sound happy. When she called me by my first and middle
name, I was on shaky ground. I felt the call of play and the call of my mother
equally. But when I heard all three names, then I was in trouble. If I ever
heard all three names without the buildup of the previous two stages, I was in
really big trouble.
We had lots of rules, or it seemed to me. I didn’t have to
break all of the rules to get into that much trouble. Just one would suffice. That
morning I had broken a rule and broken my toe.
I don’t have to break all God’s laws to be guilty. Just one
makes me guilty. Without Jesus to forgive me, I would be in serious trouble. I
can never be good enough to get into heaven otherwise.
“For whosoever shall
keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he
that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit
no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.”
James 1:10-11.
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