A God Of Second Chances

Have you ever been fishing, and when you cast your line, it didn't quite hit that sweet spot where you wanted it to go? So, you reel in really quick, and you cast again, until you hit that perfect spot where you know that big one is hiding. 

Or, when you were a kid, and you played marbles. Maybe your shot didn't go where you wanted it to go...so you pick it up, and call a do over. You make your shot again and again, until you hit the other marble you were aiming at. 

When you grew up, and played golf, when your shot didn't go where you wanted it to go, maybe you hooked it, or sliced it, or overshot the green and into the water...you call a mulligan. 

The point is, we always want a second chance when we do something wrong. With alot of people, we don't get a second chance. But my God is a God of second chances, and third chances...in fact, He is a God of another chance... Matthew 18:21-22 ESV "Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven." 

It isn't a coincidence that it was Peter who asked this, when later, Peter tells jesus that he would never betray Him, he would even die with Jesus, yet not even 24 hours later, Peter denies Christ three times. Yet, for each time Peter denied Jesus, he was already forgiven, before Peter even felt remorse and sorrow for abandoning Jesus in his time of need. 

We, too, can be forgiven if we call out to God and confess our sins to HIm. 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 

That's my God, a God who loves me and forgives me...a God who will always give me another chance.