Everyone deserves a second chance.

So let people have it.

You know exactly who I’m talking about because someone just popped up into your mind.

The former drug-addict that slips in the back of church and sits in the back row until the service is almost over and then slips out again. She deserves it.

The father who wounded you, who didn’t know how to be a good example of God to you, but who is a different man now. He deserves it.

The friend who rejected you and betrayed you but who has called and texted but you won’t answer.  She deserves it.

The woman who committed adultery but is humbled, has accepted God’s grace and is living a different life. She deserves it.

They deserve YOUR grace.

The black and white fact is that everyone of us has been given a second chance. And in all reality, a third, a fourth and a fifth chance. Even if we aren’t drug addicts or adulterers.  Every one of us has been allowed to make huge mistakes and then have been accepted, loved, coddled back into grace.

Grace changes people: hardened ears, solidified hearts and broken people are softened by the grace that you and I can give.

I know you are thinking of someone right now.  They haven’t been able to leave your head since you started reading this post.

Who is it?  Give them grace.

And, yes you might get hurt.  Giving people a second chance exposes you and at the same time it strengthens you.

But as a living recipient of thousands of second chances, I promise you it will be worth it.

Do you need to give grace today? Do you need a second chance?