BEGINNING AGAIN

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BEGINNING AGAIN

READ:  Colossians 1:9-14

We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:14

It was New Year’s Day 1929.  The University of California at Berkeley was playing Georgia Tech in college football’s Rose Bowl.  Roy Riegels, a California defender, recovered a Georgia Tech fumble, then turned and scampered sixty-five yards in the wrong direction!  One of Riegel’s own teammates tackled him just before he reached the wrong goal line.  On the next play, Georgia Tech scored an went on to win.

From that day on, Riegels was saddled with the nickname “Wrong-way Riegels.” For years afterward, whenever he was introduced, people would exclaim, “I know who you are!  You’re the guy who ran the wrong way in the Rose Bowl!”

Our failures may not be as conspicuous, but we’ve all gone the wrong way, and we have memories that haunt us.  Recollections of sin and failure rise up to taunt us at three o’clock in the morning.  If only we could forget!  If only we could begin again!

We can.  When we confess our sins and repent before God, He forgives our past and puts it away.  In Christ, “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” -all our sins (Colossians 1:14; 2:13).

It’s never too late to begin again.   DHR

THINKING IT OVER

What past sins are you carrying today?

God’s forgiveness is the door to a new beginning.