Do you ever feel like you’ve completely blown it with God? As if he’s thinking I’ve really had it. I’ve given you enough chances. I’m done with you.
I joke all the time that I am on my third guardian angel, because they have pulled their hair out and bitten their nails down to nothing, keeping me safe from some of the things I’ve done.
But the truth of the matter is we serve a God of second chances, because He knew we’d never get it right the first time and maybe not the third or fourth time.
A second cancer means that He doesn’t give us just one shot at impressing Him or earning His love or getting it right.
I believe God gave American a second chance on November 5, 2024. A second chance a reprieve for us to have courage and to be bold and work for God. Many people prayed for America to be forgiven for being lazy and letting God be taken out of American institutions without a fight. Which have caused a serious lack of morals and the value system that we once held so dear.
There are reasons God gives us second chances and we should not take advantage of it.
I believe He has given us a second chance because Scripture attests to it.
Psalm 103:10-13 tells us,
“He had not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds. For as high as the heavens are above the earth. So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our wrongdoings from us” – NASB
If God were to deal with us, according to our sins, He would be punishing us every time we committed an offense against Him.  the net worth in this passage comparing God’s mercy and compassion to that of an earthly father who loves his children.
“Just as a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him” -Psalm 103:13
Scripture also tells us of God’s mercy and second chance He gave King David, who knew better than to commit adultery and then murder her husband and then covet up his sin. When David wrote a song of confession God gave him a second chance. David wrote:
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love, according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin…”
Jesus taught us that we serve a God of second chances.
People tend to live by a “three strikes you’re out” motto when it comes to others offenses toward them. But Jesus was aware of our tendency to blow people off, or cut them off all together if they offend them more than once or twice.
My father always told me to live by the motto “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” In other words don’t give anyone three chances to fool you.
Peter asked Jesus in Matthew 18:21-22, how many times he should forgive the same person who offended him. Peter probably thought he as extra generous when h asked Jesus if he should forgive “up to seven times.” But Jesus, the God of second chances, told Peter “not seven times, but seventy-seven times. Jesus was teaching we must forgive our offender an unlimited amount of times, because that’s the way our Heavenly Father has forgiven us.
Jesus taught that our forgiveness for others should never run out, because that’s the way He forgives. He is a God with unlimited amounts of grace, mercy, and forgiveness. And that definitely means He’s the God of a second chance.
God had given us a second chance and we should take every opportunity to work to please Him everyday. And teach people what we have learned about good morals and values and keeps us in faith. This reprieve we have been given isn’t a time to get back into our lazy whimsical ways, but to help others see the “Joy of the Lord.”
He is after all the God of second chances.
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