Restoration is who God is. Even from the very beginning, He knew we would fall and yet He chose to go through with creating us with His redemptive plan in place. Jesus was there at the foundation of the world and was always meant to be our perfect sacrifice to restore all.
This is why your past actions don’t matter much to God. He longs to save, heal and deliver that which is most broken and bruised. He loves you with an everlasting love and redemption is always on His heart. He longs that none should perish. He is always providing a way home to Him. He offers a safety net, a redemptive story.
I have done some things I’m not proud of and even then, I can look back and see the Lord’s hand in my life. I can see how He loved me and how He was offering me a rescue plan. Even in my darkest days when I felt I would never recover, Father was calling out, “Hannah come home, I’m here to restore and love on you.” It wasn’t until I got healing of my inner wounds that I could truly see restoration was always His heart.
Don’t let the enemy make you think you are too far gone, or that somebody else is too far gone. Ask the Lord to give you His heart and His perspective. Ask the Lord to give you compassion and true love for others. Ask Him to remind you that restoration is our portion. As you can see from the Word, the Lord gives chance after chance for us to surrender back. God is patient, kind and long-suffering. He longs to have full restoration with His family.
So in all you do, remember restoration is our goal. Whether it be giving words, praying for others, picking yourself back up after you messed up again, or loving others, remember that the Father loves restoration. Do our actions have consequences? Of course, but redemption is always available. Just come home, our Father is waiting.
You can never be good enough in your own works to be restored to Him, but you also can’t do anything that would make Jesus’ sacrifice any less perfect. Jesus had to be the sacrifice because He was the only one worthy enough to satisfy the holiness of God. So you can’t add to or take away from the redemption available to you. It’s a gift and it’s the longing of our Savior. Receive it for yourself and others- remember the grace and mercy that was poured out on you is the same for others you encounter. Let the Father have His way in your life, it’s the greatest gift you’ll ever receive.
Hannah Smith, author of the Moving Mountains blog, is a woman who feels she has experienced a lot of life in her 33 years.
At 19 years old, Hannah joined the Army. After moving around the country, getting a divorce and losing what seemed like everything, she landed back where God wanted her in Ohio, even though she fought the whole way. She is now a devoted follower of Christ and seeks the Lord with all she’s got.
Hannah is married and a RN, but works as a stay-at-home mom to her 3 children per instruction from the Lord.
She loves to hike, travel, drink coffee, and talk about Jesus. Hannah also has a heart to create a home and life in which she can be a safe place for the hurting and the broken. Her biggest piece of advice would be to never tell the Lord you will never do something- because He will most likely then ask you to do that very thing, LOL!
To her readers, Hannah says, “I believe that God set every single one of you reading this apart, for such a time as this. It is my hope and prayer that God would use the words I say to change your life in a way you and I never thought possible!”
by leaps and bounds 
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