From Repurposed Find to Life Found Day 8

So now that we've had time to reflect, what we're bouncing off of, what we tend to propel toward, let's look at how we hit the reset button. Interestingly enough, here's how Merriam Webster defines reset:


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to move (something) back to an original place or position. : to put back in the correct position for healing.

Again, the definition begs us to resurrect the notion that we repurpose ourselves. We move out of our original place or position and we must be put back to our correct position for healing. In our time of reflection, hopefully we began to notice some patterns, some false belief systems, some opportunities to change the channel. Hopefully, there is an awareness of what is just a little off from being lined up in its intended position.

I think one of the first steps to resetting is to be willing to have ourselves placed in our original position. Have you ever broken a finger? A finger isn't like an arm where if you don't have it set correctly it's not that huge of a deal. In fact, it'll remain functional, although limited. It'll be crooked and maybe ache a little at first, but over time you won't even remember it's like that unless the finger is challenged to perform like a healthy finger. Ah...are you hearing this friends? Consider the discomfort in having to reset a broken bone, the time it takes to be in a cast, the healing that must take place. Who has time for that? We are busy, we are doers, we just need to get over it.

Sometimes in life, we are affected by experiences that can wound us. If we're not willing to receive proper healing, not willing to put the time in for us to be reset, we will not be 100 percent in that area of our life. We can make it through enough to get by, maybe fool people around us, maybe even fool ourselves. But, when that wound gets triggered by an occurrence that challenges the whole ness of it, it can be very telling. For some we can experience shame, wondering why we're dealing with that all over again. For some, we can revert back into the pattern, believing that's who we are anyway. Have you ever told yourself that? "It's just the way I am." Unless that lines up with God's truth about you friends, think again. 

So I'm wondering if we can't decide today to review the past 7 days of reflection. Let's pray that we have an open heart to receive and ears to hear, and when you're ready reach for that reset button. 

In your quiet time today, make a list of the patterns, the places in your heart, the channels you're ready to change. Then pray for strength to hit the reset button, it's time to journey ahead friends, freedom waits.

Isaiah 61:1

New International Version (NIV)

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,

    because the Lord has anointed me

    to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

    to proclaim freedom for the captives

    and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]