Do you feel you have sabotaged your life beyond repair? Do you feel that you have messed up someone else’s life? Do you feel that you want to go back in time and change things? You, obviously, can’t do that because you are bound by time. But God is not bound by time. And, in some inconceivable way, God redeems our mistakes and makes them part of his perfect will. In Romans 9-11, Paul is discussing the failure of the Jews to accept Jesus and the question of whether this messes up God’s plan. Now he focuses on whether there is no hope for the Jewish people. Paul makes it clear that God has not given up on Israel; they are still central to his plan. From this we can learn something about God and how he relates to all of us. In particular, we can learn something here about how our failures relate to God’s plan and how God’s faithfulness works over and above our faithlessness. Maybe you feel that you have stepped out of God’s ‘Plan-A’ and can only ever get a ‘Plan-B’ as a result. But no matter what you have done, God can bring you back into the centre of his plan, and even your failures will, paradoxically, become part of God’s purpose. Somehow, God will use the mess you made. It’s never too late. You could come back to God with one day of your life left and think that you missed out on ‘Plan-A,’ but God says to you: “I knew all that before it happened, it was all part of my ‘Plan-A’.” And you will try to understand it but you won’t be able to. It’s not logical, it’s wonderful. God’s plan wins.
Commit your life to live in God’s purpose for you.
Read Romans 11:1-32
