Have you ever blown it? Have you ever felt like you have messed up so badly that you cannot be used by God; that you have been benched? That your level of sin has rendered you useless?
Read through Judges 16:4 – 31 and Philemon. In both places men who had become “useless” were restored. In Samson’s case his restoration was such that he accomplished more of God’s design for him than he did in his life, Judges 16:30.
God does not discard us when we blow it. He is in the reclamation business. That is the whole point of the Bible from Genesis 3 on. All He asks is that we acknowledge our need for Him.
Read through Judges 16:4 – 31 and Philemon. In both places men who had become “useless” were restored. In Samson’s case his restoration was such that he accomplished more of God’s design for him than he did in his life, Judges 16:30.
God does not discard us when we blow it. He is in the reclamation business. That is the whole point of the Bible from Genesis 3 on. All He asks is that we acknowledge our need for Him.
Well said, so true and so hopeful. Gary
ReplyDeleteThanks Gary, means a lot.
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