Backspace, Delete, Easy

I have started many different times trying to write.  Great thing about technology, you can type all you want and instead of using an eraser or balling up the paper, you can just backspace or highlight and delete.  How many times have you wished you had a backspace button in your life?  Better yet a DELETE button!  Start all over anew.  We have all said words that as soon as they came out we wished we had a backspace button.  You know when someone is just at the wrong place at the wrong time.  Don’t they understand that you have had a terrible day?  They should know better than to bother you right now!  YEP, we have all been there.  Or when you have done something and wish with all that is in you that you could just delete that action all together?  Like when a child gets caught red handed with that cookie they were told they could not have. 

Life has a funny way of playing out.  Sometimes making us wish we had a backspace button.  “If only I did this different”, “If I would have listened better”, “If I had just one more chance”.  The list could go on.  Well I have been dealing with wanting more than just a backspace or delete button.  I am finding that I would like an easy button as well.  Computers don’t come with those, they should.  I think life should come with one as well.  Wouldn’t it be so much better to push that when something hard comes along and “click”, all better?  When pain gets too hard to bear, “click”, ahh that feels better.  When those complicated people are working our last nerve, “click”, they just disappear.  When you have been thrown every curve ball in life, “click”, you smack a homerun!  Yeah an easy button would make things so much easier to bear.  A lot easier!  . . . . . . . . . . .

Guess what?  We do have an easy button, GOD!  I think sometimes we just forget to push it or forget we have it.  We get caught up with how bad a situation is, how awful we feel, or feeling hurt.  So many times I have been in the middle of something and smack my head with my hand and think, “You idiot, why didn’t you remember from the very start to push your easy button?”  Or someone comes along and reminds us to use it.  Sometimes we think we can handle it and tough it out on our own.  So we don’t use it.  I don’t know about you, but for me, that NEVER is the case.  I always end up making a muddy mess of everything on my own.  “So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.  Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”     1 Peter 5:6 & 7 (NLT)  He doesn’t tell us that we won’t have any worries or cares.  But he does tell us to give ALL of them to him.  WHY would he want to take every heavy thing on our hearts?  Because he really does care about us!  He LOVES us!  I have had a gentle reminder this week about how I need to not let everything around me be so heavy and bring me down.  Yes it is ok to have feelings but what you do with them is what makes them right or wrong (a VERY wise woman told me that once – thanks mom).  I needed to remember to call upon God and not to let self-pity suck me in.  I needed to push my easy button.  Don’t get me wrong, things are still trying to bury me.  Then I remember what he wants me to do, give them ALL to him and he promises to lift me up when the time is right, boy do I feel so much better!  So this is my challenge to you, what in your life are you needing to push the easy button for?  Did you forget that you have one?  Did you think you could do it all without pushing it?  Give it all over!  Let God show you how much he cares for you!