The Opportunity To Start Over Again

“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.”—Carl Bard

God gives every one of us an incredible gift—the opportunity to start over again. That is the very nature of grace in that we receive that which we do not deserve and the power to do better. We often limit grace to our salvation, but it is also a part of the believer’s everyday life. Grace is the ability to live life in a way that pleases God through the empowerment of His Holy Spirit. Consider some of the words that highlight this ability to make a brand-new ending daily:

“It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him” (Lamentations 3:22—24).
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13—14).

Father, thank you for your second, third,… chances. Help us to realize just how great a blessing we receive daily, and then to use them to make brand-new endings to your glory.