Restored not destroyed

There is times in my life that I feel that I   have screwed up so bad that God will never forgive me or that He will never be able to use me again. Growing up I was taught at an early age that there are certain sins that you just never do. And in my mind I thought that if I commit those sins God will not love me. So I have pretty much committed all of "those sins" in my life. Since I am a big sinner and have committed the "big sins" I have been deemed by some as a looser, unfaithful to the Lord, and you name it I have been called that. I was just the other day thinking that man I got divorced and that's a pretty "Big sin" so I must be in trouble.

Well there is good news for me and other people like me. It's called the GRACE of God!! I could just stop witting now, because that is what it is all about, GRACE! But I am going to continue. A few years ago a friend of mine came to my house and gave me a verse to hold onto. I had forgotten about this verse until the other day. It is found in the book of Joel.

Joel 2:25
²⁵ 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.

God will restore me! That is great news. I come to Him confess and repent and I am like new to Him. He unlike me forgets my sin! As you look at the old testament all most all of the great men and women of the Bible screwed up, but God still used them. In the New Testament Peter denied, yes denied Christ three times. But God restored him and He was an important piece for the new Church as you read through the book of Acts. There is no losers in the family of God. There are no second rate Christians. God takes our failers and turns them into victories! And when it comes to sin, sin is sin. We classify sin. We have big sins and small sins. But in God's eyes sin is sin. So has Charlie Daniels says, "Lets make this day count!" Paul tells us to stop looking back and look forward and keep walking!