Reset Button
by Katherine Kehler
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"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
We moved to a different house last year. We’d only been in our new home a few days, when the garbage disposal stopped working. So, I got on my knees and peered under the kitchen sink until I found a little red reset button. I pushed it and the garbage disposal worked once again.
We all have appliances that can easily be restarted by simply pressing the reset button.
Unconfessed sin, like the broken garbage disposal, can stop us from being joyful and leading productive lives. King David states in Psalm 38 that he suffered because his sin led to health problems and separated him from God. He confessed his sin and repented.
That is what we must do to reestablish our relationship with God. Although, when we accept Christ to be our Lord and Savior—we will always be His child (John 1:12), sin separates us from fellowship with God.
We can use the reset button and have fellowship with God again. When we confess (and repent) our sin(s), we can be sure that God will forgive us and cleanse us from all sin. He gives us a new, clean beginning and restores fellowship with Him.
I encourage you to take a moment to ask God if there is anything in your life that displeases Him. Listen to His voice. If He brings specific things to your mind—take the time to admit to the act or attitude as being sinful and receive His forgiveness. (For an expanded version on this topic, click here.) It is like a reset button.
When my brother, at the age of 40, understood for the first time that his sins, past present and future, were forgiven, he jumped up and down, shouting, “I’m free, I’m free! We all can be free.
Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins. Help us to remember to confess our sins as soon as we are aware of them and to walk in new freshness and the power of your Holy Spirit. Amen
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