The Promise of His Reset

13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:13-14 (NLT) 

I probably told you this story before, but indulge me for a moment. I am an avid video game fan. Since my brother and I were kids, we have loved video games. Some of our best memories have been in the arcades in the malls, saving our quarters, so that we can play all of the games in the arcade. So you can imagine how excited we were to get our first Nintendo. The Nintendo had just come out. We had an Atari, but the Nintendo was cutting edge. Not only did Nintendo have better graphics, but it also had better games. 

What the Nintendo also did was make my brother and I more competitive. The games, especially Madden Football, increase the desire to win. Each of us wanted to beat the other. We were really competitive on these games. Some of the games we had the opportunity to play together against a common foe. We loved the Nintendo. 



However, the Nintendo had this wonderful button on the front of it called, “reset”. When pressed, the entire game would start over. The game would begin again just like nothing had previously happened. 



In one particular case ( I must apologize to my brother for this), my brother was beating me pretty badly in a game. There was no way that I was going to win the game. He was gloating, I was brooding. So I “accidentally” hit the reset button and everything was just like new. The game started over. He was mad. I was glad. And the game in which I was losing badly was gone.



It did not matter how poorly I had performed on the game before I hit the rest button. It did not matter what the score was before the reset. It did not matter how close I was to the end of the game. Once I hit the reset button, nothing that happened before mattered. Everything was new.

One of the greatest promises that God has given us is the spiritual reset button. Because of our sinful nature, we will mess life up. We will take the wrong turns, do the wrong things, neglect the correct things. Sin will control our lives, leading us to a path of destruction. And while we are losing, the enemy will laugh and gloat, while we are powerless to do anything about it. But this text reminds us that we have a spiritual reset button in Jesus Christ, that when pushed, everything resets. Life begins again.

God forgave our sins. But more than that, He canceled the record of the charges. He reset the game so that everything about it has been lost. Everything you did before the reset has been erased. Everything that was supposed to be the outcome has been eliminated. Everything that was part of the previous circumstances has been restarted. 

We can walk in victory because the cross remind you and me that it is never to late to start over again. God has given us a promise that there is always time to reset. The enemy never has the last word. No matter how bad it may be, or how difficult it may look, because of Jesus, we can simply hit the reset button and begin it all over again.