God of the Second Chance
Sunday evening, I met with our college students for our weekly Bible study. Right now we're going through Galatians. The topic for the evening was that we still live by faith after we are saved. We don't get saved by faith and then live by our own strength. Paul mentions Abraham in Galatians 3 as an example. We spent a little bit of time reviewing Abraham's walk of faith (the ups and the downs). The fact that Abraham had several experiences in his life that were major steps backwards and that he is still referred to as the father of faith has caused me to think today about some other people in the Scripture who had opportunities to begin again. Their stories are varied, but the truth is the same. Our Heavenly Father is “the God of the second chance.” In general terms, we could look at the children of Israel throughout the Old Testament and observe that God gave them repeated opportunities to start over. Jonah is a great example. ...