Obtaining A Second Chance - Part One

Obtaining A Second Chance - Part One

Second chances are extended and realized based on the completion of given conditions, derived from considering the seriousness of the offense, culpability, and level responsibility by the offender or offenders, by reason of age and experience and knowledge. Willful ignorance is not an excuse.

It is the same with healing and total restoration. Many times your doctor will say do this, that, and this, for however long, and that will determine the quality of health restored, and how long it will take, everything from a broken bone, to phobias. Indeed God is the same way spiritually.

Many speak about Second Chances; giving them and receiving them, but few want to actually do what is required for them.

Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Just because you have moved forward, does not mean God has. Read, and study your bibles. What is being taught now is like a Pilate "washing of the hands". But unless that is what God said to do, to qualify for and then walk in another chance, as if the transgression had never happened, then you are not absolved. God sets the parameters by which we are to be healed, saved, and forgiven, each and every time.

Some are deceived and want to do things your own way. You take the Goodness of God for granted, and count His Love as foolishness. You believe that what ever you offer will be accepted, only because it is what you want. Of course, the silly Savior of the World should just take and be satisfied with whatever you give him. Uhhhhhhhhhhh. He's God and the Original. Remember? It is that kind of thinking that got all that are in trouble, and in need of a second chance, in trouble, in the first place.

Cain and Abel offer a picture of this very early on. Cain offered something, but Abel offered what was required.

There is the story of Elisha and Naaman.

2 Kings 5:10
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

2 Kings 5:12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

2 Kings 5:13
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

2 Kings 5:14
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

We can go story by story about both healing and forgiveness for restorations and second chances and see that often times, every time, there was a different set of instructions that needed to be followed to obtain them.

And yet, all I hear to day is a bunch of people and preachers preaching (the reason the people act that way) begging for forgiveness, even worse, demanding it, but without doing what those things you were told to do.  And then, like Naaman, these same have the gall to get mad at the Person of God or the one they offended for not re - receiving them.  #Perverse

Though forgiveness is always right and will be from a true Lover and Believer, it can not be used and possessed or truly lived out by the offender unless they do what is said to be done. I'm watching many that are the walking dead before my very eyes, believing every thing is alright. It's not. God is both Good AND Just. Never forget that.

Did not Jesus as a Lover say, "Father Forgive them...."? And so, why do we still preach? Why do we evangelize? Why was not the forgiveness of Jesus (of all beings in the world, and to come) not enough? Why are there still those that are called sinners and a place called hell? We see clearly that one forgiving another is not enough to save them, not even the forgiveness from Christ Jesus. But there will always be subsequent conditions to receive that forgiveness. They vary as said. God wants reconciliation and truth.

Hear what I say.  Greatly consider and then do. You can't keep what isn't yours. I am a giver. But I never had the chance to give.

Much, much more to come.

Yulanda K. #SimplyAwesome