Hard Drives…

Good Morning! I’m back, hopefully for awhile. It’s amazing how life can just kind of take over and new habits can formed in just a short time. That brings me to hard drives…yes, the hard disk in your computer, which holds all your programs and information. If you have owned the laptop or computer for several years, you have years of ‘tweeking’ and working things till they are just the way you want them. You have a collection of files you can go back to, papers you have worked on for school or for work. You also have reference material of collected works from other writers. You also have the history of the places you have visited, web sites you have explored, both good and bad. So a hard drive can be very important piece of equipment. Now imagine turning on the computer and the first time ever a message pops up

“WARNING” Hard drive failure imminent! Back up your files immediately!

Now for the record this message got my attention! I have never had a computer warn me of a disk failure and I thought that is ‘cool’. Because I have been around computers long enough to know you usually don’t get the pleasure of a warning…it just crashes. And you are left trying to bring it back to life long enough to get the files of you need.

So I spent some time backing up my files, my emails…and I ordered a new hard drive. A bigger one and of course and a ‘faster’ one…

So Installed the new hard drive and spent hours updating the files through Microsoft and ‘tweeking’ programs till got things where I wanted them. I put all my files on the new drive…and I thought how cool would it be if we could just erase everything and pick and choose which memories we wanted to keep…to re-program our selves the way we wanted to be…what if we could just start over…

Some of us, I’m sure are happy with their lives and others I’m sure would love to erase and start over. But did you know with God we can get a fresh start…with people you have known you can never get a fresh start…they will always remember what you where and what you did. No matter how many times you say I’m sorry and no matter how many times that person forgives you…the action will never go away…

How many of us feel ashamed for past actions, we linger on them. “only if…” becomes the line replayed over and over in our minds.

Two of my favorite verses are these, listen to the words in your heart…

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away — look, what is new has come!
--2 Corinthians 5:17

as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our
transgressions from us.
--Psalm 103:12

Both of these verse talk of staring over…when we put our trust in Christ and repent of our sins…we are a new creation! The old has passed away, the new has come. No longer are we held prisoner by our past, it doesn’t matter to God how we use to be…he cares about what we’ll become in Christ.

Look at the psalm one more time…God removes the guilt and sin, as far as the east is from the west. Imagine two lines, one starts going east and the other west…the lines never meet…they go on forever. God is saying I remember no more…You see with God we can always count on a new start, a new beginning. We can be like the hard drive in our computer…we can start new and fresh.

I don’t know where you stand with Christ…but he is waiting and wants to give you a new start…just ask him!

-ps