Reboot Your Life

Volume 8 Issue 9

Greetings in His Name,

I hope this issue finds you well. I don't know about you but I'm excited to see what the New Year will bring. I pray that you will read along with me this upcoming year and please pass this blog address on to your family and friends. I would like to see this blog Go Global! Today's blog is entitled "Reboot Your Life", very fitting for the approach of 2020. Hope you find some inspiration, conviction, and queries.

shalom and love,

heidi

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When you reboot your electronic device, every single program and process ends as the power leaves your device during the restart process. Once your device starts back up, you have a clean slate of sorts again and, more often than not, a faster, better working computer. Well our life in Christ can be seen in the same sort. There are times when we allow people and things to get in the way of our relationship with God and we find ourselves in need of a rebooting. As well we find a need to reconcile with God. I thought it would be befitting this last day of 2019 to encourage us to REBOOT!

JOKE: Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive? He was trying to get in touch with Private Data but if it involves a Major Disaster I understand that the fault lies with General Protection. Furthermore, if you cannot reboot it may be because of a corrupt Colonel. This joke gives a hilarious kick to the functioning system of computers but I realize how true this joke is in regards to humankind. If the corrupt Colonel "us" would release the Private Data "our lives" then there would be no Major Disaster and possibly little General Failure if we would simply reboot/release ourselves into the hands of the Master – Jesus!

Do Not Conform (Romans 12:2a)

Do not conform to the pattern of this world. Paul is sharing some good advice. He is urging us to not imitate, follow, adapt, obey or try to fit in with this world. To do that would mean forsaking the help that is available to us. As Paul said to the Ephesians; you were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. To conform means I will embrace the corrupt and deceitful desires but to not conform means I will relinquish self and embrace the true righteousness and holiness that would make me so much like God. This is the rebooted life.

But Be Transformed (Romans 12:2b)

But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. But be transformed, be change, converted, get this one be renovated by allowing your mind to be changed, to be converted, to be renovated. Often times we need a reboot just to get the old stuff out. Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians; if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; the old has gone, the new is here. The key portion of the scripture is if anyone is in Christ. If we don’t maintain, if we don’t cultivate, if we don’t pay special attention to our relationship with anyone it dies, and so does our relationship with Christ. That’s one of the reasons that God told the children of Israel through Jeremiah; I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. People of God are you weary, are you faint? God says I will send a refreshing – I can reboot your system and restore you to the manufactured quality. Paul validates this statement in 2 Corinthians; do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. If you so desire that refreshing, that rebooting, I encourage you as Peter encouraged his fellow Israelite's in Acts, Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. If you want to live the rebooted life then it’s very important to be transformed [changed] by allowing your mind to be renewed.

Accept God's Will (Hebrews 12:2c)

Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing, and perfect will. Really, all Paul is saying is as long as you are not conforming and but allowing yourself to be transformed – then you will [test] know and [approve] accept whatever God wills for you. How do I know this because Jesus says in Matthews' gospel, take my yoke or accept my teachings and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. It is in knowing and accepting the will of God that we find true pleasure. Isaiah said it best; those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. This is a life that’s not conforming, this is a life that is transforming, and life that will forsake its own will to embrace the will of God; a life that is rebooted.

Closing: Reboot Confession

I used the word reboot because a Christian doesn’t start from ground zero. But there are those moments and times when we have to make what I call THE REBOOT CONFESSION; like David, create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. If your spirit is willing you don’t have to wait till the New Year, you can reboot right now. I challenge you to try Him. Hit the restart button of your heart and ask God to give you a clean slate. You will feel the difference, find yourself more focused and filled with a heart to serve.

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Wisdom beyond my years, knowledge beyond my days, and understanding beyond myself.

—heidi

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