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Wednesday... He gave us another chance.


Psalm 8:6 (NLT), "You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority."

Wednesday... He gave us another chance.

Here is what David writes in Psalm 8:6 (NLT), "You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority."


Now if we go back and read those first chapters in the Bible, God did the same thing. He gave authority over everything He had made to Adam and Eve with one stipulation but they blew it for themselves and for all of us. But that wasn't the end. He didn't check us all off of His pad. Yes, He did change some things but He also put into motion giving us another opportunity, another chance.

Again David writes in Psalm 8:6 (NLT), "You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority." But do we do the same thing with others and with ourselves? Some haven't forgiven themselves and given themselves another chance to not blow it.

What happens when our spouse, our kids, our friends, our parents, our people at work blow it? What do we do? Now if we follow God's example, we give them another chance. Yes, there may be some consequences but we still give them and us another chance.

David blew it and God gave him another chance. Yes there were some consequences, he couldn't build the temple and he was always at war but as he repented and asked for forgiveness, God gave him another chance. Yes, he wrote a big portion of the Psalms. He wrote this Psalm.

In verses 3-8 he writes, "When I look at the night and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set into place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yes, you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority - the flocks and the herds and all wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents."

Yes, God gave us another chance and we need to follow His example and give others and ourselves another chance.

Now there will be a time when we won't be given another chance. Yes, Adam, Eve, David and us will stand before God and judgement will come and we won't know the time so we better make use of this second chance. And He also will be looking at if we have given others another chance.

Yes, we too need to repent, confess and ask God for forgiveness and then accept and do better with our second chance. Yes, with that second chance, we better do better with His help, direction and His Spirt living in and through us. We don't need to do life alone.

Verse 9 says, "O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!" God is all around us and He wants to be in us! So invite Him into your life. He wants to give us a second chance. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 



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