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"How did you learn to skate?" someone asked the winner of a competition. "By getting up every time I fell down," was the reply.
The Christian life is also a series of new beginnings, of falling down and getting up again. When we stumble, we often think, "I've failed again. I might as well give up." But God is the God of new beginnings. He not only forgives our sins, but He also uses our failures to make us wiser. It is only our pride that could cause us to resist starting again.
John Newton, the composer of Amazing Grace, expressed this: "Though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor yet what I hope to be, I can truly say I am not what I once was....By the grace of God I am what I am!"
Go to the Lord in humility, and He'll show you that He is the God of new beginnings.
"Amazing grace - how sweet a sound -
That saved a wretch like me !
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now I see.
Failure is never final
For those who begin again with God.
Our Daily Bread
January 2000
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