Pastor Jonathan Kollmann “What goes around comes around.” “Your past will come back to haunt you.” “You made your bed, now lie in it.” “It’s all karma.” These are common messages we hear from people that all point to this one—”You get what you deserve.” Our culture has always taught that if we work hard, we deserve to be rewarded. And if we mess up, we deserve to be punished. And this gets transferred to the false belief about how God treats you—”God gives me what I deserve.” This false thinking often leads to another companion lie—”God is mad at me.” Behind these lies is the idea that your relationship with God and His affection for you is based on your behavior. But God is a God of mercy and grace, so we do not receive the just punishment we truly deserve for our sins. Jesus took what we deserve.