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Monday... Today can be just another chance.


Monday... Today can be just another chance.

There are so many of us that need just another chance and today can be that. Have you ever thought that this new day is just another chance? Maybe that is what we need or maybe it is what we need to give.

Over in Luke 13:6-8 (NLT) Jesus tells this story. He says, "A man planted a fig tree in his garden and came again and again to see if there was any fruit on it, but he was always disappointed. Finally" And that is a word that we really don't want to hear if we keep putting off changes that we know we need to make in our lives. 

He continues, "Finally, he said to his gardner, 'I've waited three years, and there hasn't been a single fig! Cut it down. It's just taking up space in the garden.'" So many of us deserve that type of action in our lives or we also have the right to say to that spouse, that friend, that child, that person we have been patient with, "I'm done, I'm done". But the story goes on. Verse 8 says, "The gardener answered, 'Sir, give it one more chance.'"

Oh, thank God that He sent His Son to give us another chance. That is what this week leading up to Good Friday and then Easter is all about. Jesus came to earth to give us another chance. What patience, what love, what mercy. 

Jesus goes on, "The gardener answered, 'Sir, give it one more chance. Leave it another year, and I'll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer. If we get figs next year, fine. If not, then you can cut it down.'" 

O God, may we understand that we too need to give them another chance. That we need to do all we can to help them, to do all we can to see change, but we also need to know there is an "If not."  Oh Father, may we see that they, that You have given us another chance. But that there is also an "If not" in our lives. 

God loves us so much and He has given us chance after chance after chance but that one day there will be an "If not," and that is our choice. Please, please may we make sure it is the getting figs in our lives not the, "if not"! Today can be just another chance. It is up to you what you do with it. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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