Psalm 51 [Mulligan]

 Psalm 51:10

“God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.”

There’s a thing in social golf called a Mulligan. If you shank a shot badly, and your fellow players are feeling graceful, they will tell you to take a Mulligan. This means that you do not count that shot, and you get to take the ball back to where you hit it from (or if it is completely lost, take out a new ball). You then carry on as if that previous shot did not even happen.

There are times when I’d do anything for a Mulligan in my life; a chance to take back the words I said, and erase my actions and the chaos they caused.

My wonderful God offers that to me.

He offers me a new heart (Ezekiel 36:26*), and a pure spirit; the chance to start over again. He offers me the opportunity to have all my miss hits erased from my scorecard forever. And boy, do I take it! And though I won’t pretend like that stuff didn’t ever happen, I will repent and I will learn from it; learn how not to take the shot, how not to do life.

I will try again, but this time with God’s Creator hand that makes all things new guiding me and pointing me in the right direction. In his direction.

* “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”