The Lord can restore us despite any mistakes we have made

As children of God, it is so nice to know that the Lord can restore us despite any mistakes that we have made.  Sometimes in life we can be our own worst critic.  Bringing up to ourselves the past mistakes that we have made and dwelling on them.  Perhaps we have difficulty even forgiving ourselves for some mistake that we made in the past.  The good news is that Jesus already paid the price for any of our sins past, present and in the future.  Now that does not give us the license to sin, but it provides us the grace that we need to be forgiven our past mistakes and his power to have that which has been lost in our life restored.  All we need to do is ask for forgiveness and then do what God tells us to do.  I think of the story of Job in the bible.  The story starts out so well. Job was doing so good.  But then he started to get into fear.  He made a mistake, and it opened the door to the devil in his life.  But the good news is that when you read chapter 42, Job has everything restored in his life.  Not only was he restored, but God gave him double.  That's the good news that our Heavenly Father wants to share with us.  God has a tendency to restore double or more.