Starting Over

Father, I no longer deserve to be recognized as a son of yours! (Luke 15:21)

There are not too many who realize a genuine second chance in life and make good without major attitude changes. Even with all the support, opportunity and resource in the world, a person still isn’t guaranteed success in liberty! The emotional baggage people willingly continue to carry is self-destructive and impacts, impedes or, in fact, contaminates opportunities and relationships without any effort on the individual’s part; they only need the right trigger to implode on the spot.

The well-worn term … "They will have to hit the bottom of their barrel before they’ll start to recover" is such a waste of all that is good in life, yet appears to be sadly true in so many people’s experience.

"Father, I no longer deserve to be recognized as a son of yours!" is a statement from a young man who hit the bottom of his particular barrel and discovered relational relative value … his own, others, opportunity, ability, even provision and security. Thus we find from his heart, humility escaping his lips, gone is the disdain and the self-opiniated arrogance.

What is demonstrated clearly is his hunger to start over at the level of his actual productive ability, not an inflated concept of himself, and align himself in agreement to where he is assigned – his starting point. It’s reaffirmed in life over and over again as you hear of people and companies finally identifying their specific niche area, they go all out to invest their lives and talents into it and the prosperity and well being that follows their concerted effort. Yes, you have to start right to finish right and being at the right place at the right time is essential.

The actions of this young prodigal – going back to his starting point in life … HOME, with a servant’s attitude, opened the door for his reinstatement into his actual personal life journey and development. He started by saying "… if you’ll have me, I’ll work as your servant for three good meals a day and a roof over my head". His father repositioned his starting point by declaring him his son with full privilege, with it though, the responsibility to feed his servants three good meals a day and keep a roof over their heads by learning to run a profitable business.

One can never run from their true station in life, inevitably it will confront them, creating the necessity to rise to the occasion or vanish in dismal, sullen, waste of life. Starting over requires the active participation of one’s own free will, the humility to make the necessary changes and the patience to learn the basics for life’s progression. We, all of us, need help to reach the best us we can be and maintain liberty, peace, love and joy in all our lives. It will never change. Employers need employees, employees need employers; governments need tax, people need good government but until we all realize we really do need each other to give their best in their appropriate station in life we’ll be all looking to Start Over! "What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you". (Eph 6:8)

Every day, somebody, somewhere is crying for a saviour! "Who will we send? … Here I am Lord send me. (Isa 6:8

God bless you and keep you in His unfailing love in Jesus’ name. Amen