I am a dreadful golfer. My strokes are impossibly imperfect. The first swing toward every flag routinely flies into the rough. As a result, I allow myself to tee-off repeatedly until a ball manages to find the fairway. It’s as if the faulty shots never happened.
In golf, players call this a mulligan. It’s a do-over. Past flops are replaced with a present success.
In life, Jeremiah calls this a sunrise (Lamentations 3:22-24). Writing to readers who feel their mistakes and failures have outpaced God’s grace and mercy, Jeremiah declares that God’s steadfast love never ceases and his mercies never end. In fact, Jeremiah testifies, God’s mercy on our sin arrives anew with each sunrise. Regardless of what happened last week, last month or last year, God’s grace is delivered fresh with the dawn. When morning’s light arrives, so does a do-over. Past flops are forgotten. It’s as if they never happened.
Do you need a fresh start in an area of your character or conduct? Do you need to begin again in a relationship or a routine? It’s already been granted. Thank God at first light for his unrelenting love for you.
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