What would you do if you could go back in time in your life?
What would you do if you could go back in time in your life and have a 2nd chance? What would you change, and what would you hope to gain from that change. Maybe you married the wrong person, took the wrong job, hurt someone? Something even worse? Did you know that God is a God of second chances? Maybe you are in the second season of your life and look back with regret, or are still suffering from the pain, abuse or trauma you have gone through. Sometimes we have deep soul wounds. Maybe you never allowed yourself to be in love or feel deeply for someone because your fear of abandonment, guilt or shame has been the ruler of your life.
So here is the thing… what will you do if you are offered a second chance. Maybe Life part 2. Will you have the courage, or faith to take the risk? Will you allow yourself to fall in love, or pursue the companion and life partner you have always yearned for? Will you go after that career that you have always wanted to do? And lastly will you accept the calling on your life that God has spent years crafting you to do? Or is it easier to just continue to live unsatisfied, unhappy and unfulfilled. each day like serving a prison sentence until God decides to take you home.
When we make choices in life, whether large or small, we have our reasons. And we are not always obliged to share those reasons with others. The same is true with God. He makes choices for reasons often known only to Himself.
So if God presents you with an opportunity, the perfect job, or the person that was crafted specifically for you, will you accept it? God has His own timing for a reason. It is never too late for you, and He knows the time. Your life and experiences whether painful or not, have prepared you for this moment.
What will you decide?
Dr. Capps is the OIC (Maj) of Chaplain Services and Chief Psychological Officer of the VDF Chaplain Corps Psychological Resources Program. He also owns and operates Capps Christian Counseling LLC. since 2009. He has faithfully served with the USN, and the Virginia Defense Force. He is responsible for the creation of the VDF Mental Health Initiative, and the standing up of the Psychological Health Resources Program.
Micah 6:8 “He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a]
and to walk humbly with your God?”
We are here to glorify God.
,,,,,“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31)
2 Corinthians 5:17 ; Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. [a] the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Peter 4:16
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
Jeremiah 9:23-24
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”