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4 Keys To A New Beginning
God is the Master of New Beginnings. He loves beginnings. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Beginning and the End. He began life, He began earth, He began animals, He began people, He began the Universe...He began YOU!
Sometimes we make unfortunate mistakes…unwise decisions, devastating wrong turns in life…during those times we become damaged. We need a new beginning…a second chance…and God stands there waiting for us to call upon Him. Therefore, I serve Him and have for 53 years. A God of a second chance means the Almighty doesn’t give us just one shot at getting it right. In fact, we already had that shot when Adam and Eve chose their way over God’s (Genesis 3:1-19). Therefore, God found a way to give us a second chance through the sinless life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection of His Son, Jesus. When we repent of our sin condition and surrender our lives to Him, through accepting Jesus’ atonement for us on the cross, God sees us as righteous and unblemished as His perfect Son.
Jesus is our second chance. And His gift of redemption is evidence that His Father is the God of a second chance.
The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.
-Lamentations 3:22-23aLou Gehrig was one of the greatest baseball players in history. He was a gentleman in the game, and never argued balls and strikes with an umpire. On one occasion, however, after taking a pitch that was called strike 3, he had a word with the umpire before heading back to the dugout. After the game, reporters asked the umpire what Lou had said. The ump replied, “He said, ‘I wish I had that one over again.’” How many times have you and I echoed those same words, as life has thrown pitches our way that we wish we could have over again.
Our scripture assures us that, although we can’t go back, we can begin again… every day. So look for assurances of God’s unceasing lovingkindness and unfailing compassion today. He’s giving you and He’s giving me a much-needed second chance so, let’s discuss “4 Keys To A New Beginning”.
1. Make Adjustments
‘I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.’ Psalm 119:11 Senator Bill Nelson trained for and flew on a six-day space shuttle mission aboard the Columbia just prior to the Challenger disaster. In his book Mission he explains how difficult it is to maintain a proper orbit in space. There’s no resistance in space, so an astronaut can literally turn that huge orbiter over by himself. To maintain a proper orbit, the onboard computers constantly make course and altitude corrections by firing small rockets which make minute adjustments, while larger jets burn fuel to make major adjustments. These rockets are critical, for if they don’t consistently fire at the right time, the space vehicle can veer from its orbit and go tumbling into outer space or crashing into Earth’s atmosphere.
2. Become a Master at Managing Change
The mother eagle carefully prepares the nest for its eggs. When it is time for the eaglet to learn to fly, the mother begins to remove the comfort layers from the nest, exposing the pricks and sticks. Life lesson: We must not become complacent in life; clinging to the old and familiar. We can only grow if we are willing to step out of our comfort zone. The thorns or pain in life are there to tell us that 1. there is nothing more for us where we are, and 2. it is time to move on, grow and spread our wings.
3. Refusing the Influence of FEAR and WORRY
‘God has not given us a spirit of fear.’ 2 Timothy 1:7 The Bible says, ‘God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-di
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God is the Master of New Beginnings. He loves beginnings. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Beginning and the End. He began life, He began earth, He began animals, He began people, He began the Universe...He began YOU!
Sometimes we make unfortunate mistakes…unwise decisions, devastating wrong turns in life…during those times we become damaged. We need a new beginning…a second chance…and God stands there waiting for us to call upon Him. Therefore, I serve Him and have for 53 years. A God of a second chance means the Almighty doesn’t give us just one shot at getting it right. In fact, we already had that shot when Adam and Eve chose their way over God’s (Genesis 3:1-19). Therefore, God found a way to give us a second chance through the sinless life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection of His Son, Jesus. When we repent of our sin condition and surrender our lives to Him, through accepting Jesus’ atonement for us on the cross, God sees us as righteous and unblemished as His perfect Son.
Jesus is our second chance. And His gift of redemption is evidence that His Father is the God of a second chance.
The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.
-Lamentations 3:22-23aLou Gehrig was one of the greatest baseball players in history. He was a gentleman in the game, and never argued balls and strikes with an umpire. On one occasion, however, after taking a pitch that was called strike 3, he had a word with the umpire before heading back to the dugout. After the game, reporters asked the umpire what Lou had said. The ump replied, “He said, ‘I wish I had that one over again.’” How many times have you and I echoed those same words, as life has thrown pitches our way that we wish we could have over again.
Our scripture assures us that, although we can’t go back, we can begin again… every day. So look for assurances of God’s unceasing lovingkindness and unfailing compassion today. He’s giving you and He’s giving me a much-needed second chance so, let’s discuss “4 Keys To A New Beginning”.
1. Make Adjustments
‘I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.’ Psalm 119:11 Senator Bill Nelson trained for and flew on a six-day space shuttle mission aboard the Columbia just prior to the Challenger disaster. In his book Mission he explains how difficult it is to maintain a proper orbit in space. There’s no resistance in space, so an astronaut can literally turn that huge orbiter over by himself. To maintain a proper orbit, the onboard computers constantly make course and altitude corrections by firing small rockets which make minute adjustments, while larger jets burn fuel to make major adjustments. These rockets are critical, for if they don’t consistently fire at the right time, the space vehicle can veer from its orbit and go tumbling into outer space or crashing into Earth’s atmosphere.
2. Become a Master at Managing Change
The mother eagle carefully prepares the nest for its eggs. When it is time for the eaglet to learn to fly, the mother begins to remove the comfort layers from the nest, exposing the pricks and sticks. Life lesson: We must not become complacent in life; clinging to the old and familiar. We can only grow if we are willing to step out of our comfort zone. The thorns or pain in life are there to tell us that 1. there is nothing more for us where we are, and 2. it is time to move on, grow and spread our wings.
3. Refusing the Influence of FEAR and WORRY
‘God has not given us a spirit of fear.’ 2 Timothy 1:7 The Bible says, ‘God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-di