System Restore

Microsoft Windows operating system has a feature called System Restore that takes the computer back to a previous date on the calendar. If you have problems with your computer, the System Restore program rolls back the settings to a date when everything was working well.

Wouldn’t life be great if we had a System Restore program? You could “roll back” to the day before a big fight with your husband and wipe out all the ugly words that were spoken. You could “roll back” to the days when your children were small and enjoy the things that just caused you stress back then. You could “roll back” to your honeymoon and fall in love all over again with your hubby. Or what about “rolling back” to the days before you married your now-ex-husband and call off the wedding?

However doing a System Restore in our lives would not wipe out the sins we have committed. We would probably do it all over again the same way, since human nature never changes.

 Jesus doesn’t just System Restore our lives. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” II Corinthians 5:17NKJV

 He takes away the old and makes us new—a  new creation, a new creature, a new species of being that has never existed before. When we are born again, our old human nature is changed into a new clean spirit, made in the image of Christ. As we live our lives in union with Him, we are changed from the inside out until one day we will be just like Jesus.

Because of Jesus Christ, I will never be the same old me again.