There doesn’t seem to be anything on television except reruns. The problem with reruns is most weren’t worth watching the first time. Wouldn’t it be grand if we had the opportunity to do reruns of episodes of our lives? I would like some do-overs. There are the poorly worded sentences that unintentionally hurt people. I would like to suck those back in. Then there are the stupid behaviors that leave the wrong impression. The problem with me is I am so very smart the next day. The next morning I think of the perfect thing I should have said the day before. One morning I was preaching and it was going so badly I was bored. Finally I just stopped and said, “Folks, this isn’t going well. Let’s sing the closing hymn and go home.” I thought they were going to applaud they were so happy. I asked them to come back next week and give me another chance.
There are some religions that teach that we get reruns of life itself. We keep coming back until we do it right. That is actually a pretty good idea. But Jesus has a better idea. He forgives. Upon our request He moves inside and keeps renovating. I was going to say until we get it right but that won’t happen until this corruption puts on incorruption. See I Corinthians 15. The joy is being legally perfect in the eyes of God because we accept Jesus’ payment for our sins and then growing more and more like Jesus as the years roll on.
With Jesus there are no reruns. There is no coming back. There is only going forward. It’s a grand plan. Be forgiven. Learn from our mistakes and go into a grand forever.
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 19, 2009.
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