A chance to Change
Issue# 129 on COB hosted by Microsoft Live
Created September 4, 2011
Origianly, I started this blog with something else but I erased it and decided to start over. No mumbo jumbo or fluff. Just some questions to start: What do you do when you have to defend the person God sent to you? Do you stand up to your family? Do you make excuses to your friends? Do you you rest peacfully at night knowing that you have made the right decision?
We know people can be defensive when they have chosen the wrong person to date, be friends with or even marry or work with. But that is to be expected when we as people make those choices. And we know when we have made the wrong choice. the fight in this case is called denial! But what about when God surprises even us by sending someone our way that we never would have given a second thought to? Do we fight just as hard when questioned? Do we let others get in the way then?
When we become a part of Gods plan to 'give a person a chance' to change, we must be willing to make the same allowances God makes. This means we must also give that person a chance to make the necessary mistakes and have the necessary failures to make that change possible. Facing the reality of your past means that you have gotten your power back. Think about it. Many people start off with a choice between bad and good. They choose bad and end up in places where the choice is to be made from bad or worse. Others just start with a choice between bad or worse. Either way you go, when you shift gears and decide to change your life and you let God take over, you now stand back at choosing between good and bad. God has wiped the slate clean. You are free to start again.
Those inner workings are the things that only God can see. We can't. When a person who needs a chance comes our way and God places it on our hearts to accept this person, you also accept what you can't see. You accept to trust that God know the inner parts of the person and that He will give you the strength and discernment to hang in there. Don't give up on someone because others who aren't equipt for the task want you too. Hang in there adn pray for those people. You are a part of something bigger than even them. When God makes way so you can accept them, do so like God does for you. You too, after all, are on chance twenty.