God has a design for our lives, and He cares about absolutely every aspect of our lives. However, we all have the ability to depart from His design. The Bible’s word for that departure from God’s design is “sin.”

When we sin, we experience brokenness. And brokenness feels like shame, guilt, regret— something we’ve all experienced at some time in our lives. But when we get to that broken place, we make matters worse by trying to fix it ourselves. We think we can find the fix in a new relationship, a better paying job, or more possessions. But here’s the thing about brokenness: While it doesn’t feel good, it does make us realize that we have a need for the kind of life change that we can’t make happen ourselves. The change we need that heals brokenness comes from the good news, which is what the word gospel means.

Here’s where the awareness of being broken becomes helpful to us. Once we find ourselves in brokenness and discover we can’t heal it on our own, we can then run to God and receive His remedy. Here’s how we do this: we repent of our sins. To repent means to be genuinely sorry for walking away from God and His design for our lives, to be willing to live a different way, and to believe the good news of the gospel.

When we repent and believe, Jesus comes into our lives, forgives our sins, and begins to heal our brokenness. When this happens, God gives us the chance to recover and pursue His design for our lives. And this is something we can do at any time and from anywhere we find ourselves in life.

Jesus has done the work, not to give us a “reset” to our old lives, but to provide an entirely new and full life in Him.