A God Of Second Chances

A GOD OF SECOND CHANCES - 

"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he 
should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he 
promise and not fulfill?" Numbers 23:19

"How much time have you spent beating yourself up over what you did 
or
did not do in the past? Have you said to yourself, "I've made so 
many
mistakes, there's no way to fix it now?" Don't believe this. Our 
God
is a God of second chances. He gave second chances to Abraham, to
Jonah, and to Peter. Abraham went down to Egypt when God told him 
not
to, yet God gave him a second chance. Jonah ran away from what God 
was asking yet He showed him a way out of the belly of the whale. 
Peter denied his Savior three times but God still asked him to "feed
My sheep." 

Look at the story of the prodigal son. Don't you think that father
spent many sleepless nights replaying things he should have said or
things he should have done so that his son would not leave? Don't 
you think that every day he said to himself, "If only..." But God 
gave the father as well as the son a second chance. And He will give
you a second chance also. 

Don't condemn yourself and what you've done in the past. God 
forgives this and has put it behind Him. "As far as the east is from
the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." 
(Psalm 103:12). Change is a process and it often takes time. God is
doing a new thing for you and you are a new person in Christ. 

"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am 
doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am
making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." 
Isaiah 43:18-19

Yes, our God is a God of second chances and third and fourth and 
fifth. Even when we fail Him, He is good and gracious and gives us 
another opportunity. He loves us too much to leave us where we're 
at.
He wants you to be a new person in Him and He will keep picking you 
up, dusting you off and setting you on the road again, until you 
reach
His destination."

"When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions."
Psalm 65: