The “faulty” word processor

   The word processor on my desk and a portable one I have, as a matter of fact a very old one, are used every day. Compared to the one on the desk, the portable one has a few problems.
It has two less keys, no hard disk, only one floppy disk and it does not have a print command anywhere. At times and in certain situations this causes problems.
   Actually it is not so much the absence of the keys and the hard disk that cause the problem; it is the operator who does not know how to control that floppy disk. If he handles it properly there is no need for the missing backspace or delete key. Once the words are out, there is no way of recalling them. The fact that you wish that there is a delete or backspace key indicates already that, sometimes, those words are inappropriate. Although they cannot be printed they do leave an imprint.
   In case you have not guessed it yet, that portable word processor is standard equipment when you are born. If not handled carefully it always has had a tendency to cause problems. The only way that the damage can be somewhat undone is by apologizing and confessing that the words were inappropriate.
   In the first century AD already there was someone who wrote, and I am only quoting the parts that have to do with your and my “floppy disk” ”the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts” and also: “The tongue ... is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.” and finally:”...but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.”
If you are interested in reading the whole passage take a Bible and go to the letter written by James. The third chapter has the heading: “Taming the Tongue”. Maybe your or my tongue does not always go to the extremes James mentions but we do make unfortunate and embarrassing remarks.
   In addition to the portable word processor we have another one; it is not a complete word processor but a “thought processor” only.
So what’s the danger? Nobody knows what I am thinking.
     Not so fast, Job realized that God knew everything about him.
He said: “Does he not see my ways and count my every step?” (Job 31:4). So God knows whatever goes on in your and my “thought processor”.
    There is, however, a delete key available for as well the word as the thought “processor”.
Unfortunately you and I cannot access this key. Access to this key is limited to God. He only operates this key when we come to Him and confess our sins, (do not call them mistakes, shortcomings, failures or which other softened expression you can think of). God forgives sins. What does He do with them? Listen to what David, king and psalm writer, has to say.
“...as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”(Psalm 103:12)
All our transgressions, sins, are removed this way, regardless of the way they have been produced. So let us confess our sins and admit that it was Jesus who made the payment for them.                     
     You will have a clean slate withGod.