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If your child asks for bread, do you trick him with sawdust?
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If he asks for fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate?
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As bad as you are, you wouldn't think of such a thing. You're at least decent to your own children. So don't you think the God who conceived you in love will be even better?
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.