Reflection of the Day
"Here are some of these unfounded myth that should be laid to rest permanently: ... that if we make a faulty decision and miss God's will, we are doomed to a second-best life thereafter...
"The parable of the Potter and the clay gives the answer (Jeremiah 18:1-4). When the vessel the potter was shaping was 'marred in his hands', presumably because of some lack of malleability in the clay, did he throw it away on the scrap heap? To the prophet's amazement, he took the very same lump of clay - doubtless after remedying the defect - 'and formed it into another pot'. Did he make a second best? Indeed no - 'shaping it as seemed best to him'. The Lord said to recalcitrant Israel, 'Can I not do with you as this potter does?' God never does anything second best!
"... To the penitent soul, irrespective of past failure, God's present will for him or her is never second best. Where by repentance and confession and renewed surrender, past sin and failure are 'under the blood', it is never too late to make a new beginning."
J Oswald Sanders
Every Life a Plan of God, pg. 29-32
Every Life a Plan of God, pg. 29-32
What a sense of freedom and liberty. With God, there is never any second best. Second chance does not mean second best. Second chance is truly another starting point in God's best.
I believe many people, myself included, have taken to this myth that once we have sinned and failed to follow God's way for us, we remove ourself from God's best plan for us and henceforth, our path is only second best. Yet, if we understand that God's plan is best, He is above and beyond us, able to create His best plan from whatever, we can rest assured, that as Oswald Sanders wrote, it is never too late to make a new beginning. God never does anything second best! This defies our understanding of best and second best, but this yet again merely show that God is above and beyond us, far beyond our comprehension. He has spoken. We can but believe and rejoice that He is our loving God and has His best plans for us who follow Him.
With God, there is never any second best. Amen.
I believe many people, myself included, have taken to this myth that once we have sinned and failed to follow God's way for us, we remove ourself from God's best plan for us and henceforth, our path is only second best. Yet, if we understand that God's plan is best, He is above and beyond us, able to create His best plan from whatever, we can rest assured, that as Oswald Sanders wrote, it is never too late to make a new beginning. God never does anything second best! This defies our understanding of best and second best, but this yet again merely show that God is above and beyond us, far beyond our comprehension. He has spoken. We can but believe and rejoice that He is our loving God and has His best plans for us who follow Him.
With God, there is never any second best. Amen.
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