Wouldn’t life be great, or at least perhaps better, if you could just hit the rewind button and record over the messy parts? I’m probably telling my age with that one. Do y’all remember the good ole days with VHS tapes and cassette tapes? You want to record a show or movie? Just pop in a tape and hit record. You want a tape of all your favorite sons? Just sit by the radio for hours recording them as they come on. Kidding, not kidding. Then when you decide you don’t like the song anymore or watched the show and want to record something else, just rewind and record over it. It’s the ultimate do-over.
There have been many times in my life that I wish I could get a do-over or a second chance at something. Maybe I said the wrong thing or just wasn’t clear in what I said. I always think of the perfect response later, after I’ve had time to think on whatever the matter was at the time. And, what about those times I totally messed up by doing something I should never have done? UGH! I need a do-over. I need a rewind and record button.
The thing is, with God you do get a do-over in your walk with Him. The things you have done and said are forgiven when you repent. He completely erases it. He places it as far as the east is from the west.
Isaiah 43:25 (ESV) – I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 38:17 (ESV) – …. for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Those sins we repented of are gone, erased, like they didn’t even happen. So now it’s time to let God record over those areas.
Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV) – I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away: behold, all things have become new
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