Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Micah 7:14-20
by: Irene B. Saunders.
A shepherd’s staff can keep a sheep from falling over a cliff or into a ravine. But it can also discipline an unruly lamb. The Bible tells us that the Lord disciplines us as sons and daughters when we stray. He is slow to wrath and of great mercy and compassion. But when we do not obey, we test his mercy, and it can border on the sin of rebellion. Let’s allow with thanksgiving God’s staff upon our lives—the staff of discipline, as well as the staff of protection.