Second chances

How amazing our God is! That He would forgive our sins and continue to allow us to serve Him when we had wronged Him so much!

And how great He is to allow us to try again, and to give us second and even third chances..... Even more than that! He is always growing and changing us to become more like Him and giving us more opportunities to serve Him.

I am so sincerely thankful for the mercy of my Saviour and His second chances. When I have messed things up royally and my whole life doesn't make sense, I can find a quiet place and hear His voice. Sometimes He uses others to show me how wrong I am, or where I have strayed from His perfect plan for my life...

But always, He is ready to forgive and forget and give me one more chance to serve Him. And I love Him with all my heart!

Make your life count!
Always,
Amanda

Cleaning the windows....

Most of us at one time or another have cleaned a window or a mirror. I've cleaned several rather dirty ones.... Streaked and gobs of mud on them, you can't hardly even tell they're there. Or maybe the screen is full of grime and dead bugs, and its just ugly to look at. Its a pain to clean, but how rewarding when it is clear and beautiful again!


Our lives are like windows. The world is on one side, and Jesus Christ, the Sun, is on the other. God looks down on us and Jesus covers our sin. Like looking from the outside at a window on a sunny day, you can't really see the window itself, you can only see the sun reflecting it. 
But it works both ways. The world is on the other side of the window. If it is clean, the sun comes through, and shines on whatever is inside.
However, if our lives are dirty, and sin is left unconfessed, it streaks and dirties the window like someone throwing mud on it. Now, you can see the window  from the outside even when the sun is shining, because the mud brings it out. It draws attention to the glass instead of the sun. And its not so clear or bright, shining through to the inside because of the dirt that is blocking out the sun.


What kind of a window are you? Are you clean and pure and beautiful, reflecting the Sun and letting it shine through to a lost and dark world that needs it desperately? Or is there mud and dirt and dead bugs that are making it hard to see the Sun through you?


God is the Master at window cleaning, and only He can take away the sin in someone's life. Even better, when our lives are scarred like cracks in a window, only He can fix them so that we don't shatter.


Shine on and let your life be a reflection of the Son!


Make today count!
Always,
~ Amanda ♥