The greatest reset in history is the one at the core of Christianity. It is the resurrection of Jesus. That is the point at which darkness turned to light, defeat to victory, death to life. Victory was in hand. Forgiveness was ours. The door to heaven locked by Adam’s sin was opened.
It was a reset for all of humanity, made possible by the reset Jesus undertook, first, in becoming human and then in dying in our stead, taking on all the sins of human history, and finally in overcoming death, rising on Easter Sunday so we might live.
There is no bigger moment. There is no more profound reset. It makes all the others possible, and we share in the full power of the resurrection with every recommitment to God and to the mission he has assigned each of us.
The lessons of reset are there for the taking in the story of Christ’s passion. After all, Jesus was fully human as well as fully divine, and he experienced the same range of emotions we would experience in the face of such an overwhelming task.
My Leadership Journey
And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”
—MARK 9:35
There is nothing multiple-choice about taking Jesus as a role model. We can’t pick and choose among the traits he held up for us to follow. That’s especially true for those of us who preach his Word. Jesus could hold an audience spellbound with his preaching; he could heal; he could perform miracles; but anyone who looks at his brilliance and his power must be struck above all by his love and his humility. They are the background against which all the rest stands out even more starkly. Love is the bottom line, and without it, as Paul says, the world’s best preaching is as a clanging gong.
Jesus reserved his earthly wrath for those who were hypocrites, for those in church leadership positions who did not display the spirit of love and humility he expected from those of us who serve him—especially those of us who serve him in the pulpit and in the ministry.
If you would be first, be a servant.
There are challenges faced by any preacher, and one of the biggest lies in the way leaders are treated. Ours is a culture of celebrity and, like it or not, anyone in the public eye on any level, from local to international, feels the pull of it. Athletes, performers, news anchors, politicians, and, yes, even preachers find that things change when they become highly visible. That culture of celebrity is a snare. It feeds the ego, and the ego is not the proper source of love for others.
If you would be first, be a servant.
I was in my twenties when the church I pastor started growing. At first, maybe one hundred people a week saw me in the pulpit. Before long that number was in the thousands. We started a television ministry, and people who never set foot in the church knew my name and heard my preaching. I was emerging as a leader. That’s when I looked around and first saw for myself how people make celebrities out of those in the public eye.
No one who is human can be totally immune to the lure of being noticed, being praised, being recognized for one’s accomplishments. But therein lies a problem. Those who make celebrities of people in the public eye see only the public person. No one who is human is wholly good or completely praiseworthy. In my case, those who saw me on television, saw me immersed in the Word of God, excited about sharing it, at my best doing something I love. They didn’t see me in my off moments, when things were going wrong.
The celebrity me wasn’t the real me. The celebrity me was a cultural construct. That’s not to say it wasn’t flattering, but it was not a path I could embrace and still hope to remain where God was leading me. That’s why levelheaded people in the public eye crave the company of those who knew them when, who can call them on their behavior when it seems as if the praise is going to their head.
Reset to Authenticity
The bigger the church grew, the bigger the phenomenon became. I began writing books. I started to be recognized in airports in other cities. Then when I was named presiding bishop of an international movement, I realized my photograph was appearing in media outlets around the world. It’s bracing stuff. The temptations toward pride and ego were intense. I had to fight them.
My personal call to reset at that time was toward a spirit of humility. That’s what the Spirit was calling me to—authenticity, the place where I was me, without filters, without any magnification or amplification.
What was my path to be?
First, I had to understand what was happening. The process of becoming a celebrity is not about granting you freedom. It’s the culture’s way of imprisoning you within an image. Ask those people who try to break out and rebrand themselves. The media is invested in categorization. They want to control the image—your image.
Second, I had to understand the truth I was aiming for. A celebrity status was attempting to put barriers between me and people. That, I realized, was the key to resisting it. I had to make sure I stayed connected to people. Celebrity is impersonal. Integrity is relational. I had to choose to redefine what leadership looked like in my case. I realized it was based in walking among the people. To stay connected to people, I had to stay connected to my authentic self. I had to preach what I preached, and teach what I taught.
Third, I had to know the stakes. To succumb to celebrity status would be to lose my authenticity, to trade in who I am for a bit of reputational bling, to trade God for mammon. What people need now is not another ecclesiastical celebrity. They need someone who can walk alongside them when the road is rocky and steep. People have walked alongside me through the most difficult times—theirs and mine—and I know what is important. It’s that touch. It’s two or more gathering in Jesus’ name. It’s people following his command to love one another as he has loved us.
And fourth, I had to know the process. I had to fight every single day against the spirit of pride. Being reset involves recommitting every morning to this new approach.
What people need now is not another ecclesiastical celebrity. They need someone who can walk alongside them when the road is rocky and steep.
I had to decide whether I wanted to go down the road toward becoming the next big thing, toward becoming a celebrity, or whether I wanted to be the person who impacts people at the ground level, relationally.
Jesus impacted people relationally throughout his ministry. He continues to do that, in the hearts of everyone who follows him. His approach grew out of his knowledge of his mission. Jesus said, “I have come . . . to do . . . the will of Him who sent Me” (John 6:38). That’s ultimately how I want to live, and that is the choice I made.
“The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (1:14). Jesus chose to come down and dwell among people who would ultimately turn on him and kill him. He lived with those whose sins he would bear on the cross. So who am I that I can’t walk among people?
That is the essence of reset for me.
Ministry and Family
Another reset involved my priorities. It was about acknowledging that there is often a tension between ministry and family. The hustle and bustle of ministry can swell into pathology. It can become burdensome. Ministry wants all your time. The church ministry is a jealous mistress, and it has destroyed many homes.
I had to look at my situation. I have a wife and a daughter, and one look in my daughter’s eyes tells me how much she loves her daddy. As a husband and father, I had to ask, “Where are my priorities?” I had to recalibrate.
Reset for me meant not running around the country and leaving my family four times a week. I had to create a new paradigm, to bring my family with me and model togetherness as the goal.
When Abram received the word from God, “I will make you a great nation” (Gen. 12:2), God sent Abram to a new land, and he took Sarai, his wife, with him. God’s calling was going to come to pass, and Abram’s destiny was going to come to fruition with Sarai there by his side.
God is not going to ask me to abandon my family while he does his work through me. And I don’t want my family to be bitter or resentful because I’ve left them behind. What is the point of my gaining success only to lose the very thing God gave me in the process?
What is the point of my gaining success only to lose the very thing God gave me in the process?
Those two realizations helped recalibrate my ministry, and I believe God’s voice is there both in my call to family and in my call to humility and relationship.
Resetting the Temple
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
—1 CORINTHIANS 6:19
Reset is by no means solely spiritual. The physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of our lives matter as well.
Many people in the church, and in America in general, don’t take proper care of themselves and neglect their health. I was no exception. As I traveled the country, I recognized how many people were feeding me fried chicken and collard greens and macaroni and cheese at eleven at night. I saw people singing in the choir, praising God, then getting on the elevator at one in the morning with greasy fast food bags in their hands. Eventually we were praying over these very same people because they were having heart failure. They were suffering from diabetes and hypertension and other preventable maladies.
God spoke to me about it. He said, “Son, you can change this. You can help change the way people view their bodies, as temples of the Holy Spirit.” If you’re not healthy, you can’t fulfill your purpose.
Again, Jesus is the model. There’s no doubt that the human Jesus was in great health. There is only once that we hear about him riding a donkey, and that was a ceremonial ride into Jerusalem at the beginning of the last week of his life. Instead, we hear a lot about Jesus walking. He and his disciples walked everywhere, and Jesus covered a lot of territory, much of it mountainous.
There is no way Jesus could have gone through the kind of excruciating torment he experienced under the Romans, carrying a three-hundred-pound cross up Golgotha’s hill, had he not been in optimal health. It’s something we don’t often think about or comment on, but it’s worth noting.
As a follower of Jesus, you can’t ask God to increase your capacity, to expand your mission and enlarge your purpose, if you’re not healthy enough to carry it out. You can’t ask God to reset you and give you new challenges if you’re not taking care of the very vessel he’ll be using. Your physical health is a pretty basic foundation for everything else, and if he’ll be using your body, you have to keep that body in optimal shape!
ChurchFit
Once I recognized that the fried chicken and mac and cheese had done their work on me, I knew it was time for a reset. God doesn’t want me huffing and puffing while I preach. He wants me at the top of my game, and I have to take responsibility for that.
I started working out, watched what I ate, and lost thirty-five pounds. People saw what I was up to, saw the fitness modeled by my wife and me. They saw us being advocates for better health. We decided to take it a step further, knowing that the church is often the trusted cornerstone of the community. So we started ChurchFit, a comprehensive healthy lifestyle initiative designed to help people improve their health. We do it holistically, meaning we believe in strengthening the body in conjunction with the mind and spirit.
We offer classes and contests that focus on exercise, nutrition, and cooking, offering men and women the skills that can transform their lifestyles through healthy sustainable habits and endeavors.
Talk about a reset! ChurchFit swept through our church culture like wildfire. People started coming to classes, and they started exercising and eating right. We saw them change their entire mind-sets about their health, taking responsibility for their own well-being.
Now I feel better, just like they do. I can’t tell you how good it feels when my wife wants something moved and rather than calling someone to come help me, I say, “I’ll get that, dear!” I don’t mind showing off my fitness just a little. Fitness also makes it easier to fulfill my purpose. I have more stamina and a greater ability to sustain my enthusiasm from the pulpit. If I’m running around doing seven services a week, preaching around the country at least three times a week—how can I do all that if I’m not healthy?
On a church level it’s good to see people with BMI levels back to where they should be. I see people thanking God for renewed health and vigor. I hear fewer people talking about “my sugar diabetes” or “my high blood pressure” because more people are getting their health under control, often for the first time.
The devil wants to truncate your destiny by robbing you of your health, but the only way he can do that is if you’re a willing participant. And I, for one, refuse to participate in suicide on the installment plan. Join me, and reset your life.
Surrender and Love
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!’ . . .
“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.”
—LUKE 15:17, 20
As we near the end of our journey, it is time to make sure we cast aside any lingering doubt and hesitation. There are those of you who’ve come this far with me in this book but who have let your intellect override your heart. Your fears have dampened your hope. Your weariness has reined in your dreams.
You hunger for reset but remain unconvinced that God can work with you. I know many people who believe God can do all things but don’t believe God can do all things for them. They think they have wandered far enough from God that God is no longer interested.
Let us look at the case of the prodigal son. If ever there was an example for those of us who think we have strayed too far, who think we have stretched God’s mercy past the breaking point, it is the prodigal son. If there is anyone who was an outcast and downcast because of his own actions, if there is anyone who might have fallen so low he doubted he could ever get back up, it was him.
We can guess what all he was into. Had he been a famous heir of our own age, any one of us could write the headlines, for we have seen it often—sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, and all the rest of the craziness that goes with that lifestyle.
He burned through his portion of his father’s estate. Then famine hit. The economy collapsed. He was broke and alone. He had burned every bridge, betrayed every friend, squandered every opportunity. There are rock stars who have squandered everything and wound up under bridges or living in their cars. But in this case there was an additional humiliating twist, for the prodigal son hired himself out to feed pigs. For Jews living during Jesus’ day, no job could so sum up a great fall than that one, for pigs were unclean under Mosaic law. And he envied even the food of the pigs.
But then, in one of the great resets of the Bible, Jesus said, “He came to himself.” He reentered his right mind. He surrendered.
The act of surrender amounts to saying, “I am done digging this hole.” He no doubt heard the call we have talked about in this book, the call to sanity, to reunion with the father.
The prodigal son set a reset in motion by determining to return to his father, and he did so with all the humility we know is necessary.
“How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.’ ” (Luke 15:17–19)
He had turned his back once and for all on a lifestyle that had nearly killed him.
The act of surrender amounts to saying, “I am done digging this hole.”
This young man had no money and no friends. He had no way to get a message to his father. He walked back home and prepared to offer himself as a servant in his father’s household. He would wait tables, feed animals, do menial tasks, whatever it took to be back in the household where he grew up.
And we know what happened. His father reacted not with the vengeance the son might have expected but with love and compassion. He ran across the fields to him and welcomed him home. Then he told his servants to “put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found” (Luke 15:22–24).
How many of us would have given up on the prodigal son? He was ungrateful and untrustworthy. He was unlovable. And yet his father said, “This is my son.” How much more will our heavenly Father rejoice when we come in humility to him and rededicate ourselves to him in a spirit of service?
Can you match the prodigal son in wickedness? And can you expect any less from your heavenly Father than what he received from his earthly father? “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
The story of the prodigal son also answers the question of why God sometimes lets us fall so far. I often hear people say, “Why did God let things get so bad for me? Why has he allowed me to burn through my health? Why has he allowed my marriage to be destroyed? Why has he allowed my loved one to die? Why must I suffer like this?”
God allows those things so that when he is there to rescue you, to reset you, no one else gets the glory. Sometimes he has to use hard times to show you that it’s not within your power to rescue yourself. The prodigal son’s money, contacts, education, charm, all of it served only to help take him down.
People will disengage from you. They will give up on you. They will throw you away during tough times. That includes people who forget that they have been the recipients of the grace and mercy of God. But God is using this moment, this book, to tell you that he hasn’t given up on you. God allows bad things to happen so you will know without a doubt that nobody but God can bring you out. God removes the things we are attached to so that we reach that point of surrender. And then, like the father in Jesus’ story, he is waiting to lavish you with love when you call on him.
Jesus Is Called Savior for a Reason
Jesus knew the call was on him. He knew where his ministry was heading. He knew now was the time and he heard God’s call as he prepared for what was ahead. He had spoken many times of what must happen, as he tried to get his followers to look at the world through eyes that had seen his kingdom. He asked them to think of things differently, to reassess and recalibrate their hopes and dreams for a new world where God was the only King.
Jesus knew that the long journeys, the preaching, the miracles, the adulation, the tender moments with friends and relatives, the faith of ordinary people, the strife, the rejection, the resistance from religious leaders, and the occasional pettiness, bickering, and incomprehension of his disciples would lead him to the cross. He knows our sin better than we do. He knew what it would take to save us—bring us back, reclaim, and rededicate us as God’s children so we could fellowship with him.
Jesus spent time alone with the Father no matter what the pressures on him. He was in demand wherever he went. He was always accompanied by his tight-knit group of followers—relatives, friends, and disciples—and other times by a larger group of followers who would come to watch him preach, teach, and heal. And yet he also valued downtime. He would go into the mountains, setting aside time for prayer and meditation and for fasting. He knew his strength lay in his relationship with the Father, and those things nurtured that relationship.
In doing so, he showed us exactly where to draw our strength. We cannot be refilled and refreshed amid the distractions of a busy life. We cannot be nurtured if we fritter away time or energy. We need to spend structured time alone, building our resources, replenishing ourselves with the Word of God and with prayer.
Jesus knew the Word. He quoted Scripture often, drawing on it when preaching, when answering the challenges of his critics, and when praying himself. We are to draw, as He did, from the Bible’s prescripts, its lessons, its stories, and its commands.
Jesus walked toward his destiny every day, reinventing the world through God’s love everywhere he went. As he walked, he taught, he healed, and he reclaimed lost and broken souls. He was God in the flesh. No. Jesus is God in the flesh. That’s the point of resurrection—a new start for us now. Jesus literally shows us who is calling us, who is beckoning us forward, who will lead us to our true destiny. If we stumble or fail or sink beneath what life has thrown at us, Jesus shows us who will carry us home. All we have to do is give him a chance. Step up and out of your ship. Accept a reset. Once we know what we are called to do, God’s strength will support and supplement our own, and together we will stride steadfastly toward our mission.
The Example of Jesus
Finally, the time came for Jesus to enter Jerusalem. He knew what was at hand. You and I go into our missions and responsibilities not knowing ahead of time the hardships we will face. Jesus walked into his passion knowing full well the incredible toll it would take on him physically and mentally, but he kept walking.
It’s worth noting again that Jesus was facing all this as fully human. Hebrews 4:15 says, “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (KJV).
The pain he felt was like the pain we feel—the doubt, the strain, the anxiety were all there. By the time he prayed in Gethsemane he had reached the end of his strength as a human being. He wept. He agonized. It hurt.
But look at how Jesus handled it.
He shared his sorrow. He turned to Peter, James, and John, who were with him, and said, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me” (Matt. 26:38).
It is okay to share your sorrow, your doubt, and your anxiety with someone who might understand. It is perfectly in order to seek comfort from those on the journey with us. As we learn here, we may not always receive what we need—the disciples, after all, fell asleep—but Jesus shows us that we can look to others for support.
Then Jesus went a little farther off and fell on his face. He prayed, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will” (v. 39). In fact, he prayed that prayer three times. There is no clearer indication than that moment in the garden that Jesus was fully human, and no clearer indication that he does not condemn us when we hesitate or doubt or become afraid of the sheer magnitude of what we are sometimes called to do. He understands our weakness, our desire at times for an easier road. But the key to all of this is in the statement, “Not as I will, but as You will.” In that, Jesus tells us how we are finally to live. We are to submit to the will of God, no matter what the cost.
Jesus shows us that we can look to others for support.
He went on to suffer crucifixion at the hands of the Romans, and as he cried out, “It is finished” (John 19:30), and “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” (Luke 23:46 KJV), we see the light go out. Never has such darkness descended on the earth. The great veil of the temple split. The earth quaked. The dead rose.
New Life and Good News
But if it had ended there, all would be lost.
“If Christ is not risen,” says Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:17, 19, “your faith is futile. . . . If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.”
But Jesus rose on Easter morning. That is the Great Reset. The tomb is empty. Jesus, the suffering human being, is no longer there. Sin, suffering, and death will never have the final say.
Your old self dies in a reset. You are renewed. Your new self looks like the old you, and it may walk and talk like the old you, but it is new, able to do new things. You are reprogrammed.
At the beginning of this book, I used the example of my malfunctioning phone. When I walked out of the shop after getting it reset, its old nature stayed behind. It was gone. It is the same with those of us who are reset. The liar is not there. The thief is not there. The drug dealer is not there. The prostitute is not there.
Because Jesus rose again, you can rise again. Because he took on our humanity, you can take on his divinity. Because he underwent a human death, you can take part in everlasting life. Your reset can happen because you can tap in to the ultimate power source, the power of God that was shown most clearly on earth that long-ago Easter morning.
Because [Jesus] took on our humanity, you can take on his divinity.
“All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matt. 28:18 KJV), Jesus said, and that power is available to us through his Spirit.
If Jesus is alive, you have no business being dead. If the tomb is empty, you can leave the past behind. Because he rose from the dead and lives now, you can rise from your sin, your distraction, and your complacency to live fully. You can bring new life to your job, your marriage, your schooling, your friendships, and your ministry.
To be reset in the power of the resurrection is to embrace a new beginning. It is your chance to go forth with new life and good news. It is my chance as well.
Reset in Motion
If you think resurrection isn’t possible, consider Steve’s story. You may know someone like him. Steve was a Vietnam vet who struggled for years with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, from the days before anyone had coined that term. He lived in a military town, and every time units were called up to face new combat, he found himself reliving the worst of what he’d seen and heard. Nothing stopped the memories that flooded back in. He tried church now and then, but gave up each time. He thought frequently of suicide.
Finally, one day he was sitting in his living room with a gun to his head, ready to pull the trigger. Somewhere deep inside, though, he felt God tugging at him. It was something he had felt before. He lowered the gun and prayed with a fervor he hadn’t had in years. “All right,” he began. “I’ll give you one more chance.” He emptied his heart and soul and vowed to find a way to be useful to others, even if he couldn’t help himself.
Steve went back to church with his wife, but he knew he wanted more than just to attend services. He looked for something, anything that might need to be done. It just so happened that his church was preparing to send relief packages to soldiers in Afghanistan. He pushed past the memories and began participating. Soon he was heading up the effort. He began seeking out young soldiers returning from battle zones, offering them an empathetic ear. He wanted to give them the chance to talk about things they couldn’t share with their families. He did it for them, but, just as important, he did it for himself.
As months turned to years, people noticed a difference in Steve. His whole attitude and demeanor had changed. One day, he stood up during a service and told his story. People who thought they knew him had no idea what he had been through and what it had taken to get him to the breakthrough he had experienced. They just knew he had gone from troubled man to beacon of light. He had become a living example of the power of reset.
Resurrection People
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
—JOHN 10:10
To be reset is to be on the other side of Easter morning, secure in your knowledge that Jesus is risen and you are one of his Resurrection People. It is the ultimate new beginning. Being reset reconnects you to the ultimate source of power and purpose. It allows you to regain your sense of mission and gives you the strength to carry it out. It is your chance to go forth with new life, spreading the good news in the way God has called you.
As his Resurrection People,
We are not downcast.
We are not apologetic.
We are not afraid.
We are resolute.
We are focused.
We are kind.
We are strong.
We have purpose.
Let’s linger there on that word purpose. Everyone asks at some point, “Why am I here? What am I to do?” Your purpose was part of God’s plan before the foundation of the world. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,” he says in Jeremiah 1:5. Romans 8:30 speaks of us as predestined and says, “Whom He predestined, these He also called.”
We were each born with a mission, a life purpose. We may lose track of it or struggle to find it, but it is there, and nothing big will come to fruition without that sense of purpose. Many of us recognize it as a passion. Not sure of yours? Ask yourself, “What dreams burn within me? What keeps me up at night?” If you separate the vain and earthly dreams from those truly of the Lord, you can begin to get on the right track.
Once you are clear on the passion, you are called to preparation, which is what ultimately puts you on the path. Plenty of people have zeal, but few have zeal tied to knowledge. It may take schooling, it may take inspirational reading, it may take practice and training. It will definitely take spiritual preparation. Being reset means you are working with God to do all those things. Done correctly, each of those things is a God-approved investment in you. Once you are prepared, you begin to fulfill your purpose, and a fulfilled purpose is living out your destiny.
To have meaning, to live out your destiny, it is important that your purpose is bigger than you. God, as we have seen, does not call us to easy. He calls us to hard. God is looking for us to bring our best to bear on his purposes, to reach beyond our grasp, to accomplish more than we would have thought possible. And now you have a step-by-step pathway.
You have great things in you! This is your time to shine. With God, all things are possible, and with reset, they are doable. Chase your godly dreams. Make them happen. God’s kingdom needs you and your special gifts, and once you have prepared, God will open the door of opportunity.
Reset is about believing that God sees the best in me. And if he sees it and is aligned with me to make it happen, who am I not to believe? It’s time to own the future, to declare that the rest of me will be the best of me. It’s time to say, “I’ve got vision. I’ve got dreams. I will prepare. I will fulfill my destiny.”
You have great things in you! This is your time to shine.
As you sit reading this, there is a world-changing idea inside you. Perhaps it’s a day-care center, a food business, a music ministry, a book, a nonprofit, a social or political movement meeting a pressing need. This is your call to go from idea to execution, from intention to implementation. This is your call to turn your dream into destiny.
Don’t wait. This is the time. You have all the resources inside your head and heart to set this in motion. Connect with those who can offer information, insight, and encouragement, but don’t look to someone else to do the work. God is saying, “It’s up to you.” Step out there, trust God, and say, “I’ve been reset for a reason.”
When you are reset, you see more clearly. You hear more clearly. You think more clearly. Make your purpose something you live every day and know that God walks beside you, has scoped out the terrain in front of you, and will travel behind you, bringing up the rear guard and cleaning up your mess.
REFLECTIONS
• Do you follow Jesus' example of applying quiet time set aside for prayer, meditation, and Bible reading?
• Are you ready for physical as well as spiritual reset?
• Can you set aside your last, lingering doubt and commit to reset?
• Can you identify with the prodigal son? Can you identify as well with those who might have given up on him?
• Have you found your purpose? Have you embraced it?