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The Power of the Mulligan!

Writer's picture: Pat FraherPat Fraher

Golfers know the power of the mulligan.  For those who don’t know what a mulligan is, it’s when you get to totally disregard and forget about that last bad wayward shot you just hit, and hit another one in its place.  It’s a do-over.  Golf is a game where one bad shot can ruin not only that hole, but your whole round, and even your day.  If used effectively, a mulligan can literally save your score, as well as save your day.  The key is to hit a better shot than the original.  You have to take advantage of the opportunity, and get back on the right track.


Now let’s go from the salvation of your round, to the salvation of your soul.  Jesus said in Mark 1:15, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”  Gospel means ‘good news’, and the good news is that God gives us all a mulligan!  If you have wandered away from God, or made some bad decisions, or just plain screwed up in life, God says, “Take a mulligan.”  God wants to give you a do-over!  1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  It’s not just forgiveness that He wants to give us, He actually wants us to turn from living our own way to living His.  This turning back is called repentance.  Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”  When we go ‘OB’ with our lives, He wants us to take Him up on a mulligan, and turn back to Him and His way.  The greatest example of a mulligan in the Bible was the ‘prodigal son’.  He royally screwed up his life, squandered his father’s inheritance, and finally hit rock bottom.  He decided to repent, and come back to his father.  Luke 15:20-21 “And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.  And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’  What does his father do?  He tells his servants to “‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.  And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.”  God loves it when we take Him up on His mulligan offer.  Luke 15:10  “Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.


Remember the woman who caught in adultery?  What did Jesus say?  “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”  Notice He didn’t condemn her, He told her to repent and take advantage of her mulligan.  John 3:17 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”  We are saved through repentance.  Have you ever gone OB, or are in the process of making a triple bogey in your life?  Take a mulligan, and repent.  Jesus wanted the world to know about God’s grace of the mulligan, so He sent His apostles to spread the good news.  Mark 6:12  “So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.”  This goes for everybody, whether they know about the mulligan or not.  Acts 17:30  “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,”  He’s begging you to take His mulligan.  2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”  The toughest thing about taking a mulligan is humbling yourself, and accepting His grace.  Matthew 18:3-4 “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”  So swallow your pride, and take a mulligan.

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