First of all, this sharing has weighed heavily on my leaving for Australia and because of my soon to be departure, I would like to share the many decisions that I have made that did changed my life. In short, I would like to tell you guys about my past mistakes and my regrets. But my today’s sharing is about regrets and what can we do to overcome it.
Now onto the story of my life,
To start things off, this happened when I was only 9 years old. I was kinda large for my age then. I was also quite close to my neighbours, and usually we’ll go out and play at my primary school nearby. Then before that I just found out how to play baseball (not fully. Yadda yadda, but the regret was that up till today, I’ve never been able to say sorry to her, and she has gotten very very pretty. Haha
Losing the fire for Scouts.
Grandmother’s death
Bowling heartache.
A levels.
Girls Girls Girls.
Regrets do and will take part of your life away. All these stories I can relive this any time in my head. I can recount them with vigour and relate them to those who are going through a tough time. However they are regrets and what they are is actually just unfinished business.
Therefore what can we do about regrets? Gen 6:6, 1 Samuel 15:10,35
Closure.
It’s very important to have closure with your regrets, because thats when you absolve yourself from it and never have to worry about it anymore. But its hard. As we know God has also regretted Regrets are sometimes years long, and they are hard to overcome. Some of us likes to cling onto that regret because it does define our life in a certain way. However, making regret the centre of our life displaces God as our first. All of us should know that regret never should be at the centre of our lives.
How do we get closure? God gives us peace and comfort and the knowledge that all our sins are laid bare at His altar. However, the regret will still be there, like a thorn eating in your flesh, unless you do something to take it out. What I do is very simple. First, PRAY. Pray for yourself to God and ask God for help. For my neighbour incident, I occasionally prayed that I will get an opportunity to say sorry to her when I remembered. Yesterday, I did finally get a chance to say sorry! However, not to her, but her mother, which I think it was just as well. God does give us second chances to atone for our mistakes. But we must learn to take that chance.
Romans 8:28
God always has a purpose for the things he do or the things He has planned in our lives. He may have regretted creating man, but he has already factored that in His divine plan.
However, right now, lets take the worship notes, and write down the biggest regret of our lives, then after singing a chorus, let us pray for that regret and for God to rectify that by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Joel
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