“I will forgive them for what they have done and will remember their sins no more.” - Jeremiah 31:34 ClearWord
Chess, checkers, Uno, Sorry, and Monopoly...all games I have had the joy and pain of playing, and all games that I have mistakenly made the wrong move. We’ve all done it; positioned a knight right into the enemy’s headquarters, been forced to move that piece we’ve tried keep situated, laid the wrong colour down and opened the field for our opponent to pone, relocated our pawn directly outside home and gotten kicked right back to the beginning, and bought the erroneous properties that no one lands on...losing all money accumulated. Those moves can cost you the game in each situation...but what about mulligans!? A mulligan is a second chance, a do-over, to perform a certain move or action. In every game I have participated in, the other players weren’t willing to allow me the second chance; they didn’t want me to win by allowing a do-over.
There is Someone, however, that distributes an unfathomable amount of mulligans. Without the second chances the Lord offers, we would lose the game; the game of life that everyone is playing. Every time I place myself into Satan’s centre of operations, when I don’t have the strength to say no and I end up moving myself into open territory, as soon as I make a little mistake where the Devil can overpower, even when I’m growing in my relationship with God and I make a big slip and fall back, and when I do the wrong things and don’t harvest hearts for Him...our Saviour is there to forgive, redeem, lift up, and give us a second chance. How awesome is it to know that we have a God who wants us to make it to the finish line and who desires our hearts to be set on Him. Let us remember that though His mulligans are endless...we should strive to please Him and lessen our faults for the eternal award of everlasting life. We are His children, and like a father forgives and nurtures his children, so our heavenly Father forgives and nurtures us.
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