It's been a week since I have written. I am exhausted in every form of the word. This is a season of testing and of wondering. I was talking with the dearest friend and as we were talking I thought about second chances. They themselves have realized some things about choices and decisions they made in the past and are now being presented with similar decisions and soon similar choices. Second chances, there are things in life you may not get a second chance to experience, to go through, to be a part. But there are things in life the Lord allows you to experience again, to go through again. There are decisions, tests, circumstances, and trials that the Lord gives you a second chance, a do-over. Even if we feel we are desiring the Lord's will, sometimes we still let ourselves, others, our feelings, and our flesh get in the way of making a true "not my will but Your will" decision. There are times where we may be faced with two decisions and we feel we are making a choice based on neutrality, based on the Word not the world, but we still have not surrendered the decision and the circumstance fully to the Lord. We are still holding on to some aspect, to some thing. There are other times when we are faced with a decision, a change, a choice to make, and we are completely following the Lord's will. Yet, it is tough, it is not easy, it takes us out of our comfort zones. And the Lord continues to place us in these circumstances. Other times it could be a loss or certain situations the Lord continues to bring. But no matter what the decision, loss, circumstance, or situation the Lord is allowing us to go through it again. Does it mean each time we "fail?" No! Does it mean each time we have not followed the Lord? No! Does it mean that we may not have truly let the Lord lead? It could! Does it mean we "should have made a different choice the first time?" It could! Is it easy to excuse away our choices and our decisions as "well, it was the Lord's will" instead of wholeheartedly pursuing "what is the Lord's will?" Yes!
Does it mean that each time the Lord is trying to show us something, teach us something? Yes! I will always say and always believe, He will do and He will use whatever it takes to show us He is faithful, to show us He is Sovereign, to teach us to follow Him, to teach us to rely on Him. He will do whatever it takes. If it means putting us through trials again and again, if it means bringing us back to the same choice again, if it means showing us yet again we need to change be it a relationship or circumstance, if it means we are to move or stay, sometimes, He will. Why? Because, "I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." (Philippians 1:6 ESV)
Does it mean that each time the Lord is trying to show us something, teach us something? Yes! I will always say and always believe, He will do and He will use whatever it takes to show us He is faithful, to show us He is Sovereign, to teach us to follow Him, to teach us to rely on Him. He will do whatever it takes. If it means putting us through trials again and again, if it means bringing us back to the same choice again, if it means showing us yet again we need to change be it a relationship or circumstance, if it means we are to move or stay, sometimes, He will. Why? Because, "I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." (Philippians 1:6 ESV)
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