Reset, Again
November 10, 2018
Reset, Again
In the last blog (Proper Burial) I mentioned that Rebeccah likes to tinker with stuff. She often fixes electronics when we think they are broken.
She had our playstation 2 unit scattered apart on the table (for the 5th time). After hours and her final conclusion of “I have no clue what’s wrong with this thing!” she decided it was truly trash.
She always puts the garbage electronics back together like they were supposed to be – search me as to why (maybe because I once told her that sometimes resetting something was all it needed to come back to life) but she claims “a proper burial” for broken electronics is with the item totally back together.
So after Rebeccah put the Playstation 2 console back together for its “proper burial,” it now works. (It was bought used and had a short since day one, sometimes the CD tray got stuck, and lately it would just choose to die.) For days, that console has been working great. She reset it back to “original” after cleaning every part in it and it has new life!
I’ve been considering that for some time.
Sometimes God wants us to close the doors on something old and leave it buried. Sometimes he wants us to reset it. Maybe what we’re resetting isn’t so much the item as it is our way of thinking.
The playstation console’s brain just needed all the dust cleaned out, everything disconnected and reconnected, and the source of power reset. Yes, this was the 5th time!
Maybe we need to allow God to reset the way we think – clean all the garbage out of our brain and connect all the synapses to what we’re supposed to think about (remember, whatever is good, just, lovely, think on these things?) instead of dwelling on misfires like our failures… hmm.
Is that a lot to think about because I saw the inside of a playstation brain cleaned and now it works? Maybe. But I like to analyze things… maybe I analyze stuff too much.
I try to allow God to renew my mind daily. (He says each new day is fresh in Him.) Thinking about the things I see in life (like a silly piece of electronics) working according to God’s design helps me think that all things obey God. (I know, silly, but if it helps me be encouraged, maybe it will help someone else!)
Thanks for reading!
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~Nancy Tart
