For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, so that we could have everlasting life. 

As a child I heard this phase for the very first time from the mouth of my grandmother, A woman that would speak the Gospel to anyone who would listen, she spoke of God's goodness and what that meant for us if we would "follow" him until the end. She taught us about "sin" and how sin displeases God, oftentimes saying to us, " don't let the devil cause you to sin, "or Hell will become your final destiny." At the time, I didn't understand much about how to follow God and how to live a "righteous' life, but from what I had heard about "hell," I knew that I did not want to go there, and in that moment I decided that I would try to live a life of righteousness and follow God, I would treat people as I would have them to treat me, I would pray and go to church and be as "good" as a human that I could possibly be because I believed that these were the things that would get me into "heaven." I didn't believe in God the way that my grandmother did, I found it very hard to believe in a something or someone that I could not see, every bible story seemed like a fairytale made up of strict laws that was almost impossible to keep. I lived in fear of knowing God, I only called out to him when I felt afraid or deeply hurt, hoping that all that I had heard about his healing powers would prove true in that moment. My faith was barely that of a mustard seed, I could not understand "If God was such a good God, then, why do people have to die?" As I grew older the small faith that I had in God started to fizzle out 

 One of my grandmother's favorite quote from the bible that she spoke daily to us was " Children obey thy parents (Honor thy father and mother} Ephesians 6.