1-11-2015

Good Morning All,

       Acts 2:6; “And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.”

      “Undo, Undo!!”  That is the cry that occurs when you push the wrong button on your computer.  I remember being in a sem class where we were all diligently typing a rather lengthy paper.  All of a sudden, one of the guys sitting behind me let out a shriek and started yelling “Undo, undo, undo!!”  His computer did something and his screen went blank.  Fortunately, he was able to recover his work; the undo button worked.

     I don’t know about you but there are times when I wish I had an “undo” button in my life.  There are times when I said or did something I regretted doing or things I regretted not doing and an “undo” button would have been nice.  Maybe you have had that experience as well.  Perhaps a decision or two in your life could have benefitted from an “undo” button.  Perhaps you may even feel that these decisions have negated any hope in your life.  I recently had a conversation with a man about coming to church and listening.  He looked at me and laughed a little and said he didn’t think our ceiling would hold up if he came to church; he had lived a life that he wished he could “undo” a whole lot.

    Our verse is about one of God’s “undos”.  As the Holy Spirit filled the room, people from all over the known world heard the apostles preaching in their own language.  Parthians, Medes, Cappadocians, people from Asia, Egypt, Crete; all over listened to these Galileans preach and could hear in their own language.  In essence, God was “undoing the Tower of Babel.  God’s Spirit is unifying his people; the exact opposite of sin dividing man at the time of Babel.

    This is only one example of God “undoing” man’s failures.  Jesus came to undo all that we have done so that we can stand with God and before God in peace.  Jesus’ death paid for all our sins to undo all the damage that we did and do to our relationship with God.  Jesus paid for all our sins so that he would undo the destructive effects of the devil and the world can have on us.  Jesus’ death gives us new life; we are a new creation; our life experiences an “undo” because of God’s incredible love for us.

   So if you need an “undo”; God offers you one.  He gives you the chance to start over.  He gives us the chance to change our life from one of pain and sadness to one of peace, contentment and hope.  God “undos” your pain in order to give you new life in him.  Take hold of his promise to new life and hope for today.  God has displayed the way he “undos” our sins trust him to continue to do so.

Father, in you we have new life.  You change my life by forgiving and “undoing” the pain that I cause you.  Lead me by your Spirit to reach out to those around me that I have hurt or that are in any type of pain.  Lead all those in pain into the wonderful comfort of your merciful arms.  In the precious name of Jesus we pray, amen.

God’s Peace,

Pastor Bret