Second Chances

Second Chances

I’ve been running from God all my life. Is it possible for God to use me now?

God’s Response

The LORD gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh! Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.” But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction in order to get away from the LORD. Jonah 1:1-3

The LORD ordered the fish to spit up Jonah on the beach, and it did. Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message of judgment I have given you.” Jonah 2:10–3:2

No matter how often you’ve run from God or avoided him, he knew where you were the whole time. Jonah tried to run, but he ended up running right back to God—by way of a tumultuous ocean and a giant fish. Have faith that your God, the God of Jonah, is a God of second chances. Now that you’ve stopped running, you can be sure that God wants to use you to accomplish something significant for him. Don’t be surprised if your experience of running from God just happens to have perfectly prepared you for the job he has for you to do.

God’s Promise

He will rescue you again and again so that no evil can touch you. Job 5:19