Living in regret keeps you from enjoying the now
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The school year is finally winding down and in two weeks the 2009 graduates will walk across the stage and receive a diploma for their accomplishments at high school for four years. My word to the graduating seniors is to live life with no regrets. God doesn’t want you to be saying at the end of your life, if only I had done this or I wish my life could have been different.
I Timothy 6:10 states, “Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
The word sorrow is a synonym for the word regret. The lust for money will bring trouble, heartache and sorrow. You will be far ahead of your classmates if you would follow after godliness and learn to be content with what you have. Being rich with money, cars and lots of stuff will not make you happy in life.
II Timothy 4:7 states, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
At the end of your life you need to be able to say I have fought the good fight, no regrets with a clear conscience before God.
Living in regret will keep you from enjoying life now. It will cause you to look back on the choices you made and lost opportunities. We all have things that happen in our lives that we wish we could do over again, but in order to live in the now you need to put the past behind you.
Job 27:5-6 states, “Far be it from me that I should say you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.”
Always walk in integrity and do the things that you know are right and you will never regret it. Regret comes into our lives when we don’t follow through with the things we know are right to do. The best way to attack regret is to make right choices.
Proverbs 2:10-14 states, “When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the path of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness; who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked.”
The 2008-2009 is almost over and you can’t do anything about your past but you can do something about tomorrow. Remember it’s the blessings of the Lord that makes you rich and God adds no sorrow or regret with it. So let regret go, all your past failures and look to the Lord for his direction for your life. Ask God to forgive you where you failed and move forward. Remember regret keeps you tied to the past. Everybody has a past but let your past be past at last and connect your life with today.