Restore to Factory Settings…

Today I went 4 whole hours without a phone. It was a rough time and my little life line was touch and go for a while. I was in the middle of playing Words With Friends when my iPhone just froze. Ok no big deal right??? I’ll just turn it off wait a moment turn it back on and kill my opponent with a triple word score. But that didn’t happen. It just sat there with its shinny silver apple staring at me. I then thought no problem ill just call the hotline and have them fix it, so I reach for my phone. Dang it- It’s broken. I then called from a land line at work. (Don’t worry I put the phone on speaker and continued to work as I sat on hold.)

After the long time on hold and more hours of cell phone emergency surgery, sadly my phone didn’t make it. Well the hard ware made it through but the poor little thing needed a memory wipe of sorts. The verdict was to restore to factory settings. This means that I still get to keep my phone but lose all of what is on it.

It got me thinking. There are some things in my life that I truly wish I could restore to the original factory settings. I wish that some things in my life would just magically be forgotten, gone just like they never existed to begin with.

Lucky for us we have Jesus. He does just that. He takes all of the icky yucky stored up materials that we don’t need and restores them to factory settings. What a blessing that God can use the loss of my Angry Birds to teach me about the restoration that he has supplied for me.

Often I forget that I am good as new and choose to live in my circumstances (looking for those old apps that were wiped away during the renovation) that tell me I am not new at all. It is a daily battle to get up every day and choose to see the truth of my redemption as opposed to what the world tells me.

I pray that I can live everyday in my Restored Factory Settings….

(that being said I lost all of my phone numbers and need yours too. So texted me your number and I’ll save it in my “new” phone.)