A re-do is what’s great about video games.
If we fail at a level, and we get the chance to do it over, that’s a win all around.
Many racing games allow players to back up the game for 5, 10, or 15 seconds, just enough to correct our mistakes and take another shot at victory.
Does it help us? Absolutely. We become better at the game when we can practice over and over.
Too bad we don’t get that chance in real life. If we fail at daily living, we get to eat our mistakes, even when they nauseate us.
Colossians 1:21-23 says God understands and gives us a do-over pass. We get a fresh start. We can take what we’ve learned in our failures and become better at the game.
“And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.”
We were alienated and now we’re reconciled.
We were hostile in mind, and now we are holy and blameless.
We were doing evil deeds, and now we are above reproach.
Here’s the thing. Just like in our video game, we can’t throw away our re-do. The game doesn’t automatically give us a win just because we got a fresh start. We still must learn from what we’ve experienced and play to the best of our ability.
We must be stable and steadfast and not shift from Christ’s teachings.
We must walk with Jesus, a Christian through and through.
Jesus wipes our sins clean, but we’re the ones that keep them that way.
Copyright © 2019 MyChurchNotes.net
Code: FGO.F.17.19a.vp.esv