through life with only one eye. He forgives, but He does not replace the eye. The scar is there to remind me ever after of the truth that I cannot be disobedient and escape the chastening. David found it out. What a price he had to pay. Here then is the revelation of the Word. When a sinner comes to Christ in true faith and receives Him as Lord and Saviour, he receives eternal life, the very life of God. But being a child of God places him under the absolute obligation of obedience to his Master.