The Commit That Changed Everything

Every software developer knows the cold sweat of pushing a bad change to production — code that seemed right but broke everything. In October 2021, Facebook's engineers accidentally deployed a configuration error that severed the company's global network connections, taking down Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp for nearly six hours and locking out billions of users worldwide.

When the team finally restored service, they didn't pretend the broken change never existed. Git — the version control system used by nearly every professional development team — preserves the complete history of a codebase, including every mistake ever committed. The error stays in the log. But engineers respond by writing a new commit, a "revert," that undoes the damage. The history remains intact; the harm is healed.

This is the shape of redemption. God does not erase your past as though it never happened. Your failures, your betrayals, your broken seasons remain in the record. But when Christ enters your story, He writes a new commit over your life. The damage is reversed. The corrupted code no longer runs. What was broken is restored to its original design.

And remarkably, the old error stays in the log — transformed now into testimony. The very commit that broke you becomes evidence of grace.