Reform or Re-do? That is the question...

The following post is actually in regard to a comment made by my great friend Travis in reference to my previously posted post on Pressing on.

Here is the comment...
"are you suggesting a reforming rather than a redoing? is that your line of thinking?"

My Response:
In many ways I think that reforming is the way to reshape the motives of the soul, rather than chucking all life experience related to something to search after another. The later does away with the beauty of trial and error as well as the beauty of forgiveness and Holy correction. It can give the illusion of being so burdened by the past that we dare not look at it for fear of what we were instead of giving us the hope of what we can become when we look back through the eyes of one redeemed and set free from the prison/prisons we were in. I think this applies to most all areas of life that come to mind. The ideas of reform for something so out of whack and distorted and dare i say even perverted I believe is the idea of Christ. Even the story of Noah and his family is a story of reform rather than re-do. If it was a re-do then the covenant heart of God would have backed out of what He had already purposed to do. I believe that a major underlying and even overlying idea/doctrine of the scripture is that of redeeming that which has not only been lost but also distorted by sin and all its anti-holistic ideology. Even creation according to the scripture awaits its redemption. I would like to think that God being the master Gardener would see that even if the whole tree is rotted and their remain one bud that He would take of that goodness and start it over from their, and in the reform, redoing that which was wrong.