![]() Give me a second chance to do your will.” Samson wasn’t trying to get out of his situation. He said, “Please, God, strengthen me just once more.” Samson was basically saying, “work through me again. While the Philistines were celebrating Samson prayed to God. Samson found himself in a place that he has never been before. Samson was subdued, shackled, and his eyes were gouged out. The sin of Samson that we all point to is when he told Delilah that his hair was the secret to his strength, which she later used to betray Samson.Įventually Samson’s hair was cut while he was sleeping and for the first time he became powerless to the Philistines. Although he was greatly used by God, Samson was flawed as we all are. Samson’s life was filled with second chances. Sometimes we are given second chances, but we have to live with the consequences of our previous failures. 4 Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk. Jonah 3:1-4 “ Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.”ģ. But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. “Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. “When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple. But you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit. To the roots of the mountains I sank down the earth beneath barred me in forever. I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me seaweed was wrapped around my head. You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me all your waves and breakers swept over me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry. He said: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. Jonah 2:1-9 “ From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. ![]() Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.”Ģ. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. Jonah 1:1-4 “The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. God gave Jonah another opportunity to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. However, this is obviously not what happened. At this moment, God could have just forgiven Jonah and that could have been the end of the story. By God’s command, the fish spit Jonah out. Jonah was eventually thrown overboard and swallowed by a huge fish. God went out of His way and caused a storm to get His child back. He doesn’t need us, which makes His love even greater. ![]() It’s so awesome that God loves us so much and desires to use us. God could have let Jonah go his own way, but He loved Jonah too much to allow him to remain on the wrong path. We try to do this as well when we desire our will over God’s will. “You’ve never gone too far that God can’t redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.”.“If God gave you a second chance…don’t waste it.”.“I was born again and feel as if has granted me a second chance in life.”.“Every moment of your life is a second chance.”.“ We can’t run out of second chances…only time.”.When is the last time that you thanked God for the gospel of Jesus Christ? Every day that you wake up is another chance graciously given to you through the pain, the suffering, and the powerful blood of Christ! Out of His grace and mercy He has sent His perfect Son as the propitiation for our sins. In fact, He shouldn’t forgive us because of how short we fall compared to His perfect holiness. One thing that is true for everyone is that we’ve all failed God. ![]() We should rejoice in the fact that we serve a God of multiple chances. ![]()
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