The reset button on most electronic devices is a built-in function to restore the factory settings and revive the correct functioning of a device that isn't working as expected or when it is acting "wonky." Sometimes, returning a device to the original settings will make the functions return to normal and all is well...however, there are times that a reset means starting over from scratch...you know, restoring data from a backup or having to start over. That was my experience when setting up a new wireless modem...all the work that I had done to complete the setup was wiped out when the technician said the dreaded words...let's try to reset...after all other troubleshooting attempts had failed. This wasn't an easy task, either. The reset button on this device is found in a tiny little hole that requires a tiny little something to stick in the tiny little hole to activate the reset function, which also meant getting the step ladder in place so I could climb up to reach the device placed in the highest possible location in the house. Hitting the reset button worked to establish the necessary connection but all the previous settings were wiped out. So, I had to start over. A new start. While I didn't really appreciate the opportunity to start over at that moment, the equipment was soon functioning as intended.
There are times that we need to push the reset button, especially when the wonkiness is getting out of control and nothing is working as it should. While we may be ready to throw the device out the window, before taking that drastic action....back up and reset. Jesus gave us excellent instructions on how to hit the reset button...He would get away from it all and pray.
[Luke 5:16 NKJV] 16 So He Himself [often] withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.
The reset button that is part of our original equipment is designed to work best when we start each day spending time with HIM. We don't have to wait for the fresh start of a new year, we can find this fresh start every new day...by simply getting away to a quiet place, spending time in the life-giving scriptures, talking to our Heavenly Father and listening to HIM. This reset button, pushed on a regular basis, will keep the wonkiness in check!
My reset button for this year is found in this verse:
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." Matthew 5:6
It is easy to fall victim to the pull of this world that will cause us to hunger and thirst for things that we really don't need and for things that have no eternal value. We become driven by the desires of the flesh and spend more time taking care of self than taking care of God's business. Let's hit the reset button and check ourselves and resolve to focus our hunger and thirst for the things that God desires and to let love be the priority in all that we do.
[1Co 13:1-8 NKJV] 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails..."
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