God of Second Chances

We all have hopes and dreams for ourselves and our families.  Sometimes, we get so caught up in all the accomplishing and striving to make these dreams a reality, we forget to enjoy what's going on all around us.  We don't live in the present because the present isn't much more than accomplishing the things for the future.  We forget that many times the journey is more important than the destination.  

Carlos Whittaker was going out with a video production crew to shoot some video for his song "God of Second Chances." And then Danny came along.  Check it out...

At the end of the song, Carlos says he told Danny to "keep trying to make it man."  Carlos says that Danny was looking kind of confused, and then looked him straight in the eyes and said "trying to make it?  I'm not trying to make it, I am making it.  [God] puts his soldiers everywhere.  [God] says 'Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,' and so he puts some of us there, in that valley." 


I needed to hear this today.  And without getting into the intricacies of Rastafarian theology I can learn from Danny, a homeless man who tearfully sat down and enjoyed the worship of God together with a stranger.  Sure, there are things that Danny should do.  But while he's where he is, his outlook says that God put me here and I am in the valley of the shadow of death for a reason. Sometimes I need God to save me from myself, and He usually does with good friends...

View the trials in life as valuable opportunities to become more Christlike...

Do not trust in yourself, but trust in God because He is good...

We must see our financial wealth as a trial and be responsible stewards of it for God...

Learn the truth and integrate it into your experiences...

Live a life of wisdom...Live a life of worship...Live a life of courage...

Thanks Danny