New Life

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With this opportunity for change in my life, I am grateful that my God is a God of 2nd chances, and in my case even 3rd or 4th chances. I have wondered, when God spoke to me over the past few months, probably even years, why I didn’t listen.  It is a blessing that He is a God who never stops pursuing us and that His plan for every sinner is that we be born again and stay in His will.

You’ll need a little background to truly get what I am feeling right now.  I am feeling as I have been given “new life”.  It isn’t that I wasn’t saved, but I feel that God slowly over the years has revealed to me more and more about the Christian life.

First, I experienced salvation as a “little” child.  Salvation is so simple that even little children can understand it.  I do believe I was saved at that young age, but it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I began to experience more of what the Christian life includes, in this case temptation. I began being tempted with lies and with other evil and worldly things and I gave in to those things.  My most rebellious days were my young teen years when I lied to my parents and did things that I knew were wrong.  When my parents confronted me I felt that guilt and shame.  I remember repenting and asking my Heavenly Father for forgiveness and that guilt and shame being lifted from me.  It felt as if a weight had been lifted physically from my shoulders.

Until yesterday, I had not  often experienced that feeling again in my life.  Yesterday I realized God was revealing to me that my life once again contained unforgiven sin.  Sin which was hindering my relationships and ultimately my life.  It was keeping me from “living”, which is why I believe I have now been given new life.

This time the sin was different,  it was the sin of NOT listening to God.  I was guilty of doing too many good things, which was causing me to not pay attention to the little things in life that needed my attention, most of all my family, my home and myself.   Because, I admitted my sins and asked for His forgiveness and the forgiveness of those loved ones that were held captive because of my sin.  That guilt and shame once again has been lifted from me.  I am at peace and I have been given new life!