No “Do Overs”

 

“He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’”

—Revelation 21:5

“Any chance I can get a ‘do over?’”

Most of us have made mistakes in our lives that we wish we could go back and “do over” so we could make a different choice than we made. It'’s natural to wish to have made different choices.

But there aren’t any “do overs” in this life. What’s done is done.

For the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, however, there is the new beginning that He provides. Christ has the power to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start.

Just as the sun rises each new day, so God’s mercies allow us to start again each time our sin and selfishness grinds us to a halt.

Notice what the Apostle John records Jesus saying in Revelation 21:5-6:

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”

Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.”

Jesus makes everything new. He frees us from the penalty of the past. He transforms us from slaves to our sin nature and grants us a fresh start.

That alone is reason to praise Him at the start of each new day.

 

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