Factory Reset
Hebrews 12:5-11
We most definitely live in an ultra-fast paced, information sharing, computer driven age. In fact, it’s hard to even imagine life today without personal computers, laptops or a smart phone attached to every hip, right? Whether we like it or not, the information age genie is out of the bottle and it’s not going back in and even more so with the advancements of A.I., Artificial Intelligence…but what happens when these devices on which we’ve become so dependent, fail to operate properly?
Our pc or laptop crashes or our smart phone gets bogged down and sluggish… For whatever reason, a virus, lack of memory or just too many installed apps, our devices can sometimes get to a point where they no longer operate as the original designer intended. Fortunately, the designer created a way to restore these units to their original settings and that is with a factory reset.
As followers of Christ, we too can become bogged down with the virus of sin, the busyness of life and the worries of this world. To get our attention, God sometimes has to perform a factory reset so He can refocus our wandering hearts back onto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.
And to do this, God will sometimes strip us of our idols of comfort and familiarity to drive us to our knees before His throne in absolute desperation. God doesn’t do this to hurt us; He does it as a loving Father who longs to bring us into oneness with His Son, Jesus. I hope that you’ll join us this Sunday as we begin the new year, a year of new beginnings in the Lord.
God Bless, I love y’all!
Pastor Doug
