The Reset Button
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We are all aware that the last 18 months have been such a challenging time! Many people across our world are still very sick, and many have died and our prayers are with those suffering and those who have lost precious loved ones.
I have cried many tears and felt the pain of many in the last year. Our amazing NHS have done an incredible job and all they are doing just blows me away. My heart has also gone out to the many people who have lost their jobs during this time of Covid.
Covid has brought about a massive change in how we live our lives. We have spent a lot of time at home. One of the things about being at home is that we have found out how much we rely on the internet for work, education, church, connecting with people and shopping and so much more!
The internet is great, but our problem is connecting to the internet! We have found that our phone chargers always stop working and our family computer is getting old and slow and it becomes hot, overwhelmed and often needs a reset.
In fact, lockdown has exposed how much of our home needs a reset. When you look at the same walls each day, you quickly start to see the cracks and the stains. In fact, this year we have been focused on redecorating our home. Its like our home is going through a reset.
It is not just our computer and our home that need a reset. Lockdown has given us all time. This extra time to think and reflect has exposed a whole lot of thinking and attitudes and ways of doing things that are tired and old and overwhelmed.
We are about to come out of lockdown. I am so excited. Many things will go back to normal and I cant wait for reconnecting with people properly. At the same time we need to make sure that we don’t miss this opportunity and time to press the reset button in the areas of our life that are tired and weary and slow.
The problem is: We can often try and press the reset button in our life in our own strength.
We end up trying to figure out ourselves, how to fix things and how to sort out our life and improve it, all in our own strength.
We spend our energy researching and planning and trying to figure out what it means to press the reset button. We end up tired and stressed out from trying to figure out what decisions to make in order to press the reset button.
Sometimes we quit one thing and start another thing in order to press the reset button. Then after a while we realise that the grass isn’t always greener. We realise that the attitudes, weariness and fatigue are still there in our life.
I believe we need to go back to Jesus.
Jesus died on the cross and He died a painful death. As he died he took on our pressure, our burdens, our mistakes, our mess ups, our sin and our stress. When we died, His power was turned off.
When he came back to life, everything was RESET.
When we trust in Jesus and what he did on the cross then we can be reset. We can discover a re-set in every area of our life.
He pressed the reset button once and for all.
For your life, he pressed the reset button.
For your business. For your family. For your relationships. He pressed the reset button.
He has given us a chance for a new start. For fresh attitudes. For new strength.
Where you have been stressed and overwhelmed with work, or felt like at a dead end in a relationship or situation in your life. Jesus has pressed the reset button and given you a chance for a new start.
Now in Jesus there is fresh strength for our weariness. New life. New creative ideas. new ways of seeing the same situation.
You have an opportunity in this end period of lockdown, to go back to Jesus.
I want to encourage you to allow Jesus to reset you.
Ask God, whether its for the first time, or what feels like the billionth time, what areas of my life need a reset? Where are you tired? What attitudes or practices or ways of doing life are leaving you weary and tired and run down?
Come to Jesus. Let him reset you. Recharge you. Reenergise you.
Let Jesus RESET you and give you new blueprints and new ways of thinking about life and situations. Let him give you new perspectives and new attitudes towards people and places.
Jesus is full of love. His arms are outstretched. He doesn’t condemn. He saves. He rescues the weary. He restores the tired. He fixes the broken.
