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Jeremiah, chapter 46, verse 28,

fear not, O Jacob, my servant, declares the Lord,

for I am with you.

I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you.

But of you, I will not make a full end. I will discipline you

in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished. Jeremiah 4628 is a promise to God's

people in the middle of their suffering for sin, that he will restore them, that he is with them,

and he will bring them back to himself.

And the picture here, God says, I will discipline you in just measure.

So I think about my life as a dad with four children,

whom I disciplined.

And that's a good thing that I instruct them in ways that are good.

And that when they don't follow those ways,

that there are consequences for those things that teach them,

that way is not good.

There's a better way.

And it's good all throughout Scripture.

We are exhorted as parents to discipline children, not in a way that exasperates them,

but in a way that shows love for them, care for them. And the Bible tells us that God is a father

to us who disciplines us for our good. He shows us that sin is bad, that its effects are harmful,

so that we would turn from sin, so we would trust him more. So this is where we need to thank God

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