Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
           anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

All Christians need, periodically, make a new start. I have no patience with the shallow argument that because we have made good resolutions before and have failed to keep them, therefore we should not make new resolutions. No man living ever did all he planned to do. No woman ever kept all her vows. But everyone who ever tried to do better was helped by it. The Gospel of a second chance appears throughout the bible.

Jacob fleeing from his brother Esau, met God at Bethel, and made some vows to the lord (Gen. 28:16-22). In the next score of years, Jacob had his ups and downs; he gained property and grew a great family, but his wife worshiped idols, his daughter was ruined, his two sons assassinated the entire male population of a city. Then to backslidden Jacob came the command of God to go back to Bethel (Gen. 35:1-3). There he made a new start.

When God commanded him to go and preach to Nineveh, Jonah rebelled and ran away. When the storm came at sea, Jonah confessed his rebellion and had the sailors cast him into the sea, where the great fish swallowed him. When the fish disgorged him on the coast, Jonah was given the second command to go to Nineveh. When he did, the people repented, and had their own second chance!

As a hot-headed man of forty, Moses decided to cast his lot with his people, the Hebrews. He killed one Egyptian oppressor and thought to deliver his people (Exod. 2:12). But the time was not ripe, and Moses fled to the desert of Midian where he spent forty years. Then God spoke to him through the burning bush and sent the seasoned and ripened Moses to deliver his people

Previously Samson had been wonderfully filled with the spirit of God to Judge Israel. But Samson did not always honor God. Delilah cut off his hair as he slept with his head in her lap, and the spirit of God left him. The Philistines put his eyes out and bound him to turn a mill like a donkey. The poor sightless Samson turned his heart back to God and died gloriously with the power of God on him (Judg. 16:28-30).

Grief filled his heart over the way he had treated the lord Jesus. Peter planned to quit the ministry and he went back to fishing for a living. But at the Sea of Galilee Jesus met him again and sent the humbled apostle again to “feed my sheep” (John 21:15-17). In a few more days Peter was ready to preach the Pentecost, ready to live and ready to die for the Lord Jesus

That wild lad who went away from home proudly, who wasted his substance with riotous living, came to rags , hunger and a hog-pen and at last came to himself. When he went home, his father ran to meet him with a kiss of forgiveness

Any backslidden Christian can simply confess his sins to God and have his sins wiped out in a moment. (1John 1:9: proverbs 28: 13: Psalms 51) with that honest confessing there will come sweet forgiveness and mercy, new cleansing and blessing. We can again have all the fullness and blessing we ever had, and more if we need