Life...as a cassette tape?

Remember those cassette tapes we used to listen to?

If you were lucky, your favorite song would be the first track on either side.  But more often than not, you'd have to do the rewind/fast-forward dance with the tape to find that two-second spot of dead air right before your song began.

Was that so bad?

We were excited when CDs came out (and their video counterpart, the DVD) because there was no wait time to hear your favorites. A few simple clicks and Track 6 comes through from the beginning. BE KIND REWIND signs became obsolete; the discs themselves were kind enough to not require additional work.

But then our lives adopted a similar makeover.

There is no backing up when you make a mistake. You just say, "Oh well!" and move on. Not that it is entirely a bad thing to forge ahead, but we are now a society who buries mistakes instead of learning from them.

Sometimes we need to just stand up, confess our mistakes (if only to the Lord), and rewind.

Learning from our mistakes was once once of life's most valuable tools.

Now we have the spinmaster mentality of never admitting wrongdoing or accepting consequences.

If we CONFESS our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins...(1 John 1:9)

Not spin them, not ignore them, not bury them.

Confess them.

Sometimes we just need an old-fashioned rewind button.