How would you like for the contents of your life to be contained on a laptop computer. Imagine it for a moment, your life on a laptop… Now picture this, someone taking a cable connected to your laptop, hooking it up to a projector and broadcasting every last file across the screen. Let’s say there’s a file entitled “thoughts”. Every thought that ever crossed your mind is contained in this folder and it’s now being broadcast for all to see. There is also a folder labeled “good works”. I wouldn’t mind that one being shown. However the “motives” file would probably humble me to the point of wishing I hadn’t ever done a good deed. But as bad as that would be, I’d hate for someone to find the file buried way back in the heart of my hard drive, the file filled with my “secret sins”. It’s kind of heavy stuff to think about, isn’t it? Thankfully, the contents of our lives are not contained on laptop computers. However, God does see and know each of us inside and out. He knows where we go and what we do while we’re there. He knows every thought that has crossed our minds. He also knew before the beginning of time that we would mess up the “hard drives” of our lives. Actually all of us contain a virus that is planted and rooted in our system, sin. God knew that this virus, left untreated, would totally shut down our mainframe and take over our souls. Since God knew this, He sent His only Son to rescue us from ultimate failure. When we allow Him to, Jesus takes all the nasty files that we try to hide and deletes them completely. Debugging is nasty business but once complete we are finally free to function properly. Even after the initial reprogramming, He’ll send us messages warning us when other viruses (like bitterness, anger, unforgiveness etc…) try to take over our systems. Jesus heals our hurts, helps us through the hard times and totally restores everything we thought was lost forever. I think that may be my favorite part, restoration. Because instead of seeing all my failures flash across a screen, when someone looks at my laptop, instead of seeing me, they’ll see only Jesus.