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HELEN SANDERS
8-28-2022
THE UNDO BUTTON
When typewriters were the only method that office workers had to type letters before word processors and computers came out, mistakes were corrected with erasers. It was a job that required much skill because you could ruin the letter by smearing the letters, or even putting a hole in the paper if you pressed too hard. Then came correct-o-tape, which was white powder applied to little sheets of paper where it hardened. You would take the paper and put it in the typewriter in front of the “ribbon” and type over the mistake. The white on the correct-o-tape paper would transfer to your typed paper.
Later they came out with liquid paper that you could paint over the mistake and retype the correct letters. Finally, word processors came out that allowed you to press the “backspace” button and type the correct word and then print it out. Computers have the same button, and when mistakes are made, you just undo what you have typed by pressing the backspace button and then print out the correct paper you wrote.
Computers changed the way a secretary did work. It was so much easier to do a letter or a form because you could correct it without anyone knowing you had made a mistake.
Have you ever wished that life had an “undo, or backspace button?” You know, where you could push a button and undo the mistakes (sins) that you have done in life? Well, there is such a button. It isn’t called the backspace button. It is the repentance button. When you push this button, you admit your “mistakes” and they are erased by the Lord.
Isaiah 43:25 says, “I, (God) even I, am he that blotteth out (erases) thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” When we repent, which means to turn away from our sin and go in the opposite direction, God literally blots out our sin as if it never happened. Micah 7:19 says, “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”
When you put those two verses together you realize that your sin is in the depths of the sea to never be remembered again. God provides this “undo button” but it is up to us to use it. He does not want us to live in the torment of all that we have done wrong my friends. He wants to wipe the slate clean through our repentance. Then, just like that backspace button on the computer that changes the mistakes to the correct words, we are not to remember the mistakes either. They are gone and cannot be brought back when we repent.
Enjoy the privilege of a God that makes a way when we fail. He wants us to live in victory and not stay the victim of what we have done. Use that “undo button” frequently. It is as close as the mention of his name.
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