Purpose & Calling
I made a choice years ago that I now think was wrong, and I feel like I forfeited the life God had for me. Is there a way back?
“And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,”
Jonah had received a clear instruction and boarded a ship going the opposite direction, and everything that followed was the consequence of that choice. What is striking is how the story restarts. The commission is not reassigned to someone more reliable, and the text spends no time at all on a lecture. The second word comes to the same man about the same city.
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”
Paul writes from custody to a church he loves, opening with confidence about their future rather than a review of their track record. The image is of work already underway and carried through to completion by the one who began it. Paul is not claiming they will make no further mistakes. He is claiming the project does not depend on their flawless execution of it.
A path forward
Name the specific regret out loud to God this week, and where there is genuine sin in it, confess it plainly and receive forgiveness rather than serving an imagined sentence.
Write down what you have that you would not have if you had chosen differently: people, skills, hard-won understanding. Grace tends to work with what happened rather than around it.
Choose one obedience available to you today, however small, and do it. The way back is nearly always the next right step rather than an undoing of the last ten years.
Closing verse
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.”
- Joel 2:25
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